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To the Senate and the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing 
a report, with accompanying papers, of the delegates of the United 
States to the Fourth International Conference of American States 
held at the city of Buenos Aires from July 12 to August 30, 1910. 

Wm. H. Taft. 

The White House, January 16, 1911. 



LETTER OF SUBMITTAL. 



The President: 

Referring to the provision in the urgency deficiency act, approved 
February 25, 1910, for representation by the United States in the 
Fourth International Coruerence of American States, the under- 
signed, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the Presi- 
dent, with a view to its transmission to the Congress, the report, with 
accompanying papers, of the delegates of the United States to the 
conference, which was in session at the city of Buenos Aires, Argen- 
tine Republic, from July 12 to August 30, 1910. 
Respectfully submitted. 

P. C. Knox. 
Department of State, 

Washington, January 12, 1911. 

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REPORT OF THE DELEGATES OF THE UNITED STATES 

I TO THE 

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES 

Held at Buenos Aires, July 12 to August 30, 1910. 



Sm : We have the honor to transmit to you the following report of 
the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of American 
States, which has just concluded its labors and at which we have been 
present as delegates of the United States, including certain docu- 
ments hereinafter enumerated. 

Leaving New York on board the U. S. Army transport Sumner on 
Thursday, June 16, we reached Buenos Aires on Friday, July 8, 1910. 

We were met on landing by the minister of the United States, Hon. 
Charles H. SherrUl, and his staff, by Mr. Bartleman, the consul gen- 
eral, by several of the ministers from other American Republics 
accredited to the United States, and by Argentine officials. 

July 9, the day fixed by the governing board of the Bureau of the 
American Republics for the opening of the conference, being the 
national festival of the Argentine Republic, we found on reaching 
Buenos Aires that the inaugural session had been postponed untS 
Tuesday, the 12th, on which day it took place in the presence of the 
minister of foreign affairs. Dr. de la Plaza, who took the chair, and 
of others of the Argentine cabinet, of the ministers of foreign powers 
accredited to this Republic, all of whom had seats on the floor, and 
of a goodly number of spectators in the galleries. 

The minister of foreign affairs delivered an interesting speech, 
cordially welcoming to Buenos Aires the delegates of the various 
countries represented at the conference, alluding to the work of this 
and of previous conferences and referring in eulogistic terms to the 
Monroe doctrine, in which he said the people of the Argentine Repub- 
lic had always been firm believers. The chairman of the delegation 
of the, United States, at the general request of the other delegates, 
replied to the speech of the minister, after which Dr. Bermejo, chief 
justice of the supreme court and president of the Argentine delega- 
tion, was selected permanent president, and Senor Epifanio Portela, 
minister of that country to the United States, secretary general of 
the conference; Hon. P. C. Knox and Dr. de la Plaza, respectively 
Secretary of State of the United States and Minister of Foreign Affairs 
of the Argentine Republic, being elected honorary presidents. 

Dr. Bermejo, upon taking the chair, made a speech, the copy of 
which, together with those of the two previously referred to, is 
attached to this report. (Appendix C.) 

All the Republics of America, except Bolivia, ^vere represented, 
and'the flag of each in succession was displayed for a day over the 



6 FOURTH IN"TERN"ATIO]SrAX. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

buildinjy in which the conference met. Notwithstanding the absence 
of a delegation from Bohvia, the flag of that country was flown in 
its turn. 

A list of the names of the delegates and of the officials of the con- 
ference is annexed. (Appendix F.) 

The sessions of the conference were held in the new palace of jus- 
tice, a large and imposing building, recently erected for the law 
courts, on one of the principal squares of the city. In addition to 
the large central hall in which the formal sessions took place a num- 
ber of smaller rooms were conveniently arranged for the meetings 
of committees, and the president was good enough to announce at 
the first session that all telegrams and cablegrams sent by the dele- 
gates woi-ild be forwarded to their destination free of charge by the 
Argentine Government. Luncheon ^^nd other refreshments were 
also provided for the delegates and their friends throughout the 
duration of the conference, and every arrangement was made for 
theu" convenience and comfort. 

The first session for the transaction of business was held on the 
14th of July and was chiefly devoted to the rearrangement of the 
subjects to be assigned to the committees, as provided in article 6 
of the program (Appendix A), particularly in respect to sections 3 
and 4 thereof, a general feeling having manifested itself in favor of 
increasing the number of the committees as conducive to the more 
rapid dispatch of business. After some discussion the president 
appointed a committee to consider the subject, and upon its recom- 
mendation a resolution providing for 14 committees, instead of 7, was 
adopted. (Appendix N.) 

The following is a list of the committees upon which this delega- 
tion was represented, with the name of its member upon each, from 
which you will observe that committee No. 1 (rules and credentials) 
is the only one of the 14 whereon there was no delegate from the 
United States. A complete list of the'" membership of all the com- 
mittees will be found in Appendix G. 

Second committee. — Subjects of the program: II. Commemoration of the independ - 
ence of the American Republics; V. Mr. Carnegie's generosity; XIII. Appreciation 
of the Pan American Scientific Congress at Santiago; XIV. Celebration of the open- 
ing of the Panama Canal. Mr. White (seven members). 

Third committee. — Subject III of the program: Reports of delegations as to the 
action of their respective Governments upon the resolutions and conventions of the 
Third Conference. Mr. White (20 members). 

Fourth committee .—^uh]ect IV of the program: Report of the Director of the Inter- 
national Bureau of the American Republics. Mr. Reinsch (20 members). 

Fifth coinmittee. — Subject VI of the program: Pan American Railway. Mr. Moore 
(20 members) . 

Sixth committee.— ^Vi\)\Qct VII of the program: Establishment of more rapid steam- 
ship service between the American Republics. Mr. Nixon (seven members). 

Seventh committee. — Subject VIII of the program: Uniformity in consular docu- 
ments and the technical requirements of customs regulations, and also in census and 
commercial statistics. Col. Crowder (20 members). 

Eighth committee. — Subject IX of the program: Recommendations of the Pan 
American sanitary congresses in regard to sanitary police, quarantine, etc. Mr. 
Kinley (20 members). 

Ninth committee. — Subject X of the program, in part: Patents and trade-marks. 
Mr. Quintero (seven members). 

Tenth committee. — Subject X of the program, in part: Copyright; and XII, Inter- 
change of professors and students among the universities and academies of the American 
Republics. Mr. Moses (seven members). 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 7 

Eleventh committee. — Subject XI of the program: Continuance of treaties on pecu- 
niary claims. Mr. Moore (seven members). 

Twelfth committee. — Subject XV of the program: Future conferences. Mr. Quin- 
tero (20 members). 

Thirteenth committee. — Article 6, section 6, of the regulations: Publications. Mr. 
Reinsch (five members). 

Fourteenth committee. — Article 6, section 7, of the regulations: General welfare. 
Mr. Moses (five members). 

It maj^ be well to add that in several instances members of our 
delegation were unanimously elected as chairmen of the committees 
to which they were respectively assigned, but we had decided 
beforehand not to accept any chairmanship save that of the sixth 
committee, to which Mr. Nixon was elected, and for his acceptance, 
of which there appeared to be special reasons. 

There were 14 plenary sessions of the conference, one of which 
was called to express sympathy with Chile on the death of President 
Montt, while three were devoted to the commemoration of the inde- 
pendence days of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, which fell on days on 
which the conference sat, but in addition to the sessions of the con- 
ference, there were many and frequent meetings of the committees, 
in which the discussion of the subjects on the program was for the 
most part conducted. Not a single unfriendly, much less ill-tempered, 
word fell from anyone at any session of the conference, and the dis- 
cussions in committee were on the whole conducted with an unusual 
degree of good humor and with a marked desire not to allow personal 
predilections, however strong, in favor of any particular point, to 
mterfere with a unanimous decision. As a result you will observe 
that no minority report was made in any committee and that the 
single report of each is signed by all the delegates of which its mem- 
bership was composed. 

All of the subjects upon the program which required careful con- 
sideration were very fully gone into and satisfactorily dealt with 
by the committees having them in charge, and it would be unfair to 
our colleagues from the other 19 Republics represented on those 
committees not to call your attention to the fact that they, one and 
all, showed not only invariable courtesy to the member from the 
United States but favorable consideration for his views whenever 
possible. 

Four conventions and 20 resolutions were adopted by the confer- 
ence after discussion of each, but for the most part practically as 
reported from the committees. 

The following consideration of the work accomplished by the con- 
ference is submitted in the order in which the subjects appear upon 
the program: 

COMMEMORATION OF THE ARGENTINE NATIONAL CENTENARY AND OF 
THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

An appropriate resolution was rej)orted by the second committee 
and passed by the conference. It is set forth in the minutes and 
embodies proposals made by the representatives ( 1) of Chile, for the 
erection of a building in the city of Buenos Aires for the purpose of a 
permanent exhibition of products of the soil and of the industry of 
all the nations of America; and (2) of Cuba, for the publication of 
an artistic volume in which the declarations of independence of all the 



8 FOURTH INTERNATIONA!. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

American Republics shall appear, together with certain^salient his- 
torical incidents connected therewith. The representative of the 
United States was careful to explain to the committee his Govern- 
ment's special interest;in these centenary celebrations of the sister 
Republics, quoting extracts relative thereto from thejPresident's last 
annual message to Congress and from your instructions to the dele- 
gation. The resolution as adopted will be found in Appendix O. 

ACTION OF THE VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE RES- 
OLUTIONS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE. 

The third committee, wliich had this subject in charge, gave it full 
and careful consideration. 

All of the delegations, except that of Haiti, which was not repre- 
sented at the Third Conference, presented memoranda (translations 
of which are appended to this report, Appendix H) relative to the 
action of their Respective Governments upon the conventions and 
resolutions of that conference. A tabulated statement showing at a 
glance the action of each Government upon the four conventions of 
the Third Conference is also transmitted herewith. (Appendix I.) • 

In the resolution reported by the committee and adopted by the 
conference (1) cooperation between the Pan American committees 
and their respective Governments in the preparation for future con- 
ferences; (2) the establishment of such Pan American committees in 
countries where they do not yet exist; (3) the carrying out of the 
agreements reached by the Third Conference in respect to natural 
resources, monetary systems, commerce, customs, and statistical 
schedules; and (4) the adoption of a system of deposit of ratifications 
with a view to their prompt exchange and to the speedy proclamation 
of conventions, as well as the adhesion of nations not origmally parties 
thereto, are provided for. 

The Chilean delegation having proposed a resolution suggesting 
that, in the codification of international law, as provided by the fourth 
convention of the Third Conference, a distinction be made between 
questions of general and questions of purely American interest, the 
committee recommended that the same should be submitted to the 
consideration of the jurists having charge of the codification in 
question. 

A form of resolution submitted by the delegates of Costa Rica, 
Guatemala, and Mexico, and having for its object a recommendation 
that the congress on coffee, suggested in the thirteenth resolution of 
the Third Conference, assemble as soon as possible, in view of the 
crisis now existing m the production and sale of coffee, was considered 
by the third committee, as was also a memorandum by the Brazfiian 
delegate setting forth the steps which had been taken in reference to 
the crisis by his Government. The committee thereupon caused a 
paragraph to be added to its report to the conference stating that in 
its view, the resolution of the Rio conference relative to a coffee con- 
gress being still in force, it rests with the Government of Brazil, as 
therein provided, to fix the date at wliich such a congress should be 
convened. A resolution to this effect was adopted by the conference. 
{Appendix P.) 

A translation of the report of this committee %nll be found on pages 
97 and 251. (Appendices I and DD.) 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, 9 

THE PAN AMERICAN UNION. 

The committee on the Bureau of American Republics considered 
the advisabihty of converting into a formal convention the resolution 
passed and continued by successive conferences under which that 
mstitution has hitherto been maintained. On the part of many dele- 
gates the belief was expressed that the ratification of such a conven- 
tion would require an indefinite time on account of the constitutional 
provisions in numerous Republics which require the consent of their 
Congresses, It was felt that the activities of the bureau might be em- 
barrassed were a convention adopted immediately on account of the 
delays which might occur in its ratification. It was therefore decided 
to maintain for the immediate future the resolution under which the 
bureau exists, making therein such changes as might seem necessary, 
and also to submit to the Governments the draft of a convention care- 
fully considered by the committee, which might be concluded as soon 
as the Governments should find it convenient. (Appendices Q and R . ) 

The conference maintained the presidency of the Secretary of 
State of the United States of America in the governing board of the 
Pan American Union. Indication has been made by the delegates 
of some countries that it would be more in accordance with the equal 
dignity of all the members in the union if the chairmanship of the 
board were made elective, but it was pointed out that, by the common 
practice of international unions a position of similar dignity is 
usually accorded the minister of foreign affairs of the country in 
which the union has its seat; and also that the presidency of the 
Secretary of State would powerfully assist the union and help to 
increase its dignity and efficiency. The importance of these con- 
siderations was universally admitted, and the dignity of the presi- 
dential office was again conferred upon the Secretary of State of the 
United States, as an honor freely bestowed by the American nations. 
In the absence of the Secretary of State, the sessions of the governing 
board are to be presided over by one of the American diplomatic 
representatives present, in the order of rank and seniority, and with 
the title of vice president. 

In order to acknowledge the dignity which it is proper to recognize 
in an international institution of such importance, the name of the 
bureau was changed to 'Tan American Union;" while the name of 
the organization of American countries which supports the bureau 
was changed to the briefer form of "Union of American Republics." 

It was decided that a republic temporarily not represented by a 
diplomat at Washington might intrust its representation on the 
governing board of the Pan American Union to some member of that 
board, this member then having a vote for each country represented. 

Under a resolution passed at Rio de Janeiro in 1906, Pan American 
committees have been established in nearly all of the republics. It 
was the original intention that these bodies should cooperate with 
the central union in carrying out its work. In accordance with this 
purpose and in order to make it more definite, the Fourth Conference 
embodied in the resolution and draft convention relating to the Pan 
American Union an article defining the functions and relations of the 
Pan American committees. Being thus linked to the central institu- 
tion, they are to form with it a common organism, acting as its 
representatives and agencies in the different States, and having on 



10 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

their part the right to bring to the central union matters relating to 
their respective countries. 

The functions of the Pan American Union were not essentially 
modified. It was decided that it would be desirable for the unioia 
to gather and publish information on the current legislative acts of 
the American Republics. The ])osition of the Pan American Union 
as the permanent commission or agent of the International American 
Conferences was emphasized. The success of these conferences in 
the future will depend largely upon the thorough and sj^stematic 
work of preparation carried on by the Pan American Union and 
the committees. The questions considered by the conferences are 
becoming less general and elementary, far more detailed and tech- 
nical. The extensive bod}' of accurate information required in the 
making of treaties and resolutions which shall be of practical value 
can be furnished only by cooperative work carried on through the 
Pan American Union and the committees in the different republics. 

The financial administration of the union was more definitely 
regulated with respect to the annual budget and the duty of the 
member States to pay their quota upon a fixed date into the treasury 
of the Pan American Union. It was left to the governing board to 
arrange for the fulfillment of the duties of a treasurer on the part of 
some official of the union, and to establish an independent system of 
audit. The importance of the Columbus Memorial Library as a 
center where the most complete information on all the countries of 
the union can be obtained was recomized, and the countries renewed 
their engagements to supply this collection with documents and other 
books. In order to make the work of the Pan American committees 
more successful, and to form in each country a center of information 
on all the others, it was also provided that documents and books 
shoidd similarly be sent to the Pan American committees in each 
country. 

It was felt that it would not be wise to attempt to make specific 
regulations for all the activities of the Pan American Union. The 
power to provide in this manner for the control of the administration 
in all its agencies was therefore left to the governing board, and in 
matters referring to the internal administration to the director general. 

The Pan American Union thus established is an organization of 
great importance and dignity. It was thsrefore thought proper that 
the title of the head official should be changed to "director general,'' 
and that of the secretary to "assistant director." In connection 
with this change, the committee and the fourth conference expressed 
their high appreciation of the successful work of propaganda and 
organization carried on by the present director general, the flon. John 
Barrett, as well as the efficiency of the assistant director, jMt. Francisco 
J. Yanes. 

In preparing and adopting the draft of a convention concerning 
the Pan American Union, the committee and the conference were 
governed by the principle that in such convention there should be 
laid down only the essential bases of the organization and functions 
of the union, lea\ang to the governuig board and to the director 
general the power to determine, by means of regulations, all the 
details involved in the proper performance of the functions of the 
union. The draft convention adopted rests entirely upon experience 
and incorporates in a more formal manner the organization already 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 11 

developed by means of the successive resolutions and the activities 
of the union. In the draft of the proposed convention the essen- 
tial elements of the organization are stated in a simplified form, while 
many of the details of the resolution are left to the determination of 
the governing board. 

The draft convention on the Pan American Union is in a form 
ready for the action of the Governments of the American Republics. 

During the discussions in committee, the organization and action of 
the Pan American Union were thoroughly inquired into by the 
various delegates. The work accomplished in the past was fully 
appreciated and the means for increasing the usefulness of the institu- 
tion were discussed in detail and with deep interest. In a siprit of 
friendliness and cooperation the committee sought to perfect as far as 
possible the organization of the union and to give it greater efficiency, 
scope, and dignity. 

APPRECIATION OF ME. ANDREW CARNEGIE's GENEROSITY. 

The representative of the United States on the second committee 
thought it best to leave to the other members thereof the prepara- 
tioi of the resolution embodying the appreciation of the conference 
of Mr. Andrew Carnegie's generous gift toward the cost of the new 
building for the Union of American Republics. It was, however, a 
source of much gratification to hear the many friendly and grateful 
references made by them, and by the delegates generally, to Mr 
Carnegie's interest in the cause of Pan-Americanism, and to the 
practical and generous assistance rendered by him to its furtherance 
through the magnificent gift in question. 

You will observe from the resolution, whTch is submitted herewith 
as Appendix S, p.nd which was passed mianimously, that the Govern- 
ing Board of the Union of American Republics is instructed to present 
to Mr. Carnegie in behalf of the conference a copy of the resolution, 
together with a gold medal bearing on the obverse side the words, 
"To Andrew Carnegie, the American Republics," and on the reverse 
side, "Benefactor of humanity." 

PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY. 

One of the duties with which the conference was charged was that 
of reporting what progress had been made since the Rio conference 
upon the Pan American Railway, and of considering the possibility 
of cooperative action among the American Republics to secure the 
completion of the system. 

In the performance of the first part of this task, the labors of the 
conference were greatly simplified by the comprehensive but concise 
and businesslike report of the permanent Pan American Railway 
committee, through its chairman, the Hon. Henry G. Davis. This 
report, bearing date of June 10, 1910, was duly presented to the 
conference. A copy is hereto annexed, marked Appendix GG. It 
embodied all the information as to the progress of the work which 
had been received at Washington up to the time of its signature. 
Its statements were found to be correct, and its usefulness to the 
conference was much enhanced by the circumstance that the Ameri- 
can delegates were furnished, on their departure from the United 



12 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

States, with an abundant supply of copies, printed in English and 
in Spanish, for distribution among their colleagues. 

Either in their formal reports, which were printed for the use of 
the conference, as to the action of their Governments upon the vari- 
ous conventions and resolutions of the conference at Rio, or in special 
communications filed with the appropriate committee, statements 
on the subject of railways, usually with reference to the Pan Ameri- 
can system, were made by the delegations from Argentina, Brazil, 
Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, 
Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, and Uruguay, the United States present- 
ing the report of the permanent committee. It appeared by the 
statement of Peru that about 200 kilometers of new railway had 
been opened in that country since the period covered by the Davis 
report. Mr. Mejia, of Salvador, the energetic and capable chairman 
of the committee on the Pan American Railway, announced during 
its sessions that contracts had been concluded for the completion of 
that part of the line lying in his country. The delegate from Para- 
guay, besides submitting a special statement for that country, pre- 
sented a rectification of the boundary line, as. shown in the map 
accompanying the Davis report, betw^een Paraguay and BoUvia. 
The fact was generally understood, however, that the map was not 
intended to be authoritative as to international bomidaries. 

After due dehberation it was decided in committee that it would 
not be of any practical advantage for the conference to undertake, 
on the information before it, to adopt a specific and direct plan of 
cooperation among the American Repubhcs for the completion of the 
Hne, it being apparent from the oral statements of delegates, as well 
as from the printed and written documents, that the formulation of 
such a plan would necessarily involve the consideration of variant 
local conditions as to which, especially in Colombia, further investi- 
gation was essential. 

After numerous sessions the committee agreed upon and presented 
the following report: 

The fifth committee, charged with the consideration of Subject VI of the program 
of the proceedings, has the honor to present to the conference the result of its delibera- 
tions. 

From the examination of the documents and data submitted by the permanent 
Pan American Railway committee and by various delegations it appears that the 
work on the Pan American Railway presents the following conditions: Of 10,211.5 
miles, which constitute the total length of the route from Washington to Buenos Aires, 
there havebeen built 6,012.9 miles and there remain to be built 4,198.6 miles. 

The sections respectively belonging to the territories of the Republics of the United 
States, Mexico, and Argentina have been finished. 

In the time which has elapsed since the last conference at Rio considerable advances 
have been made on other sections of this important work, but according to the data 
before it the committee believes that the execution of the work in the part not yet 
constructed will not be completed within a term responding to the common desires 
manifested in this and in the preceding conferences if the union of the Republics does 
not adopt measm-es designed to accomplish it in a more efficacious way. 

With these antecedents, and taking into account the different votes given in pre- 
vious conferences in favor of the rapid completion of this work, which has contributed 
80 efficaciously to the union of the Republics, the committee proposes that the present 
conference adopt the following resolutions: 

1. To continue the existence, with all its powers, of the permanent Pan American 
Railway committee in Washington, to which, for the important services which it has 
rendered, the conference expresses its acknowledgments. 

2. To confirm the resolutions taken by the Third Pan American Conference on this 
same point. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 13 

3. Taking into consideration the high moral and material advantage of the com- 
plete realization of the important work projected, the conference charges the perma- 
nent Pan American Railway committee with the collection, in the briefest possible 
time, of all the investigations and data, technical and financial, necessary for the 
formation of a definitive plan and proposition designed for the construction of the 
work, and earnestly recommends the countries interested in its completion to adopt 
and communicate to the permanent Pan American Railway committee the most 
efficacious measures as to the giiarantees and subsidies which can be offered to facili- 
tate the fulfillment of this great common desire, to the end that the said committee, 
in view of these communications, may propose a practical form for the solution of the 
problem, which would be impossible, or at least very remote of accomplishment, if 
it should be abandoned to the isolated action of each of the countries specially inter- 
ested in it. 

This report was adopted by the conference without division. 

It may be mentioned, as one of the numerous signs of the wide- 
spread interest exhibited in the Pan American Eailway, that although 
the committee on the subject was a large one, consisting of a repre- 
sentative from each delegation, its meetings, which were held twice 
a week, were usually, if not uniformly, attended by all the members, 
although some of the countries represented in the conference had and 
have no direct concern in the project. 

CONSIDERATION OF THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE ESTABLISH- 
MENT OF MORE RAPID MAIL, PASSENGER, AND EXPRESS STEAMSHIP 
SERVICE BETWEEN THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS CAN BE SECURED. 

This work was intrusted to a committee of seven. This committee 
had a number of meetings, but it was suggested by the chairman that 
each should prepare a statement giving the general idea of the con- 
ditions and constitutional powers limiting governmental encourage- 
ment, what had been done under such powers, and suggestions of 
means to secure the service desired. As a result certain recom- 
mendations were prepared, which accompany this report as Appen- 
dix U. 

The instructions to the United States delegation were such as to 
preclude the suggestion or approval of any definite means of govern- 
mental encouragement. For this reason the resolutions submitted 
were confined to such limits as were general in their application. 

The resolutions received the full approval of all the members of 
the committee, and were submitted to the conference by the chair- 
man on August 12, 1910. 

The extent and scope of the resolutions were explained by the 
chairman in his presentation of the report which is attached hereto 
as Appendix HH. 

The resolutions were then voted upon one after the other and all 
were adopted without a dissenting vote. 

UNIFORMITY IN CUSTOMS AND CONSULAR REGULATIONS, CENSUS, AND 
COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 

This general subject was considered by a committee of 20 made 
up of one representative from each delegation. At its first session 
three subcommittees were appointed to make the necessary pre- 
liminary studies, the first of customs and consular administration, 
the second of census matters, and the third of commercial statistics, 
vrith the duty of reporting to the full committee measures tending to 



14 FOURTH IXTERXATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

establish uniformitT of administration among the American Repubhcs 
in the several regards named. The bases of these studies were the 
several memoranda which accompany the report of the full committee, 
and the proceedings of prior Pan American Conferences and of the 
New York customs congress. Material assistance was given by 
experts in consular and customs administration whose services were 
placed at the disposal of the subcommittees by the Argentine ministry 
of finance. 

The instructions of the Department of State to the United States 
delegation laid special emphasis upon the vexatious liindrances to 
interchange of trade among the American Republics which resulted 
from the enforcement by them of regulations affecting their customs 
and consular services, \videly different in character, and leading to 
confusion on the part of exporters and importers who must comply 
with them. The delegation was urged to secure an agreement, by 
convention or otherwise, for such unification and simplification of the 
existing administration as would tend to remove these hindrances. 
Specificall)^ it was instructed to secure, if possible, the adoption of 
(1) uniform regulations respecting manifests, (2) a uniform consular 
invoice to be made out in the language of the country of import and 
in the currency of purchase, (3) uniform certification fees for con- 
sular invoices of $2.50 gold where the invoice value exceeded -SI 00, and 
for lesser valties, 50 cents, (4) an agreememt to dispense with consular 
certification of manifests and bills of lading, and (5) a uniform rule 
that entry of.imported merchandise should, in all cases where hj reason 
of delay in mails or for other satisfactory cause the original consular 
invoice failed to reach customhouse authorities with the shipment, be 
allowed on a statement in the form of an invoice, accompanied by a 
proper bond for the subsequent production of a duly certified invoice; 
and providing further that technical defects in the consular docu- 
mentation of shipments should not be the basis of fines or penalties, 
and that manifest clerical errors in such documentation might be 
corrected after entry at the customhouse and without prejudice to 
the consignee or owner. 

The investigation of the committee disclosed that 18 of the Ameri- 
can Republics require consular invoices and that the remaining 3 
require certificates of origin, which follow closely the requirements of 
the consular invoice. The committee had before it the forms of 3 
documents of each country in Spanish and English. It was found 
that different countries required dift'erent specifications of shipments 
and different forms of certificates of shippers and consuls. A com- 
parative study of these forms was made by the Argentine experts, 
the result of which convinced the committee that the essential require- 
ments of all these documents could be combined into a single inter- 
national form of consular invoice if there were omitted the certificates 
of shippers and consuls which .must reflect the requirements of local 
laws. With this omission an international form of consular mvoice 
was reported by the committee and adopted by the conference, which 
is substantially the present United States form. 

By similar means the committee reached the agreement that a 
common form of consular manifest, which document tliree of the 
American Republics deem essential to safeguard their customs 
revenues, could be adopted. 

In the view that the ship's general manifest was substantially a 
consolidation of bills of lading and had no utility in the entry of 



FOURTH INTEEISTATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 15 

imported goods, not subordinate to the consular invoice, it was 
readily agreed by the committee to concur in the recommendation of 
the first "conference to dispense with consular certification of that 
document, and also to dispense with the certification of the bill of 
lading as to the countries requiring the certified consular invoice, for 
the reason that as the latter document embraces all material data 
set forth in the former and both accompany the shipment, the certifi- 
cation of the latter was unnecessar}^. 

In respect of fees exacted for consular certification of invoices, an 
examination of the laws and regulations of the several Republics 
showed two general systems in force. The first may be appropri- 
atel}^ designated the flat-rate s3^stem, the consular certification fee 
being a fixed moderate sum intended solely as a compensation for 
the consular service rendered. But two nations employ this system, 
one (Brazil) requiring the flat rate of -ll.eo and the other (the United 
States) of $2.50. In the second system the certification fee is in the 
nature of a tax* on the merchandise listed in the invoice, but this 
system is not uniformly applied. One group of nations exacts a 
fixed consular certification fee corresponding to fixed invoice value 
with increments in the former corresponding to increments m the latter. 
Another group similarly requires a fixed consular certification fee 
corresponding to a fixed invoice value, but provides that where the 
invoice value exceeds a certain specified limit the prescribed consular 
certification fee shall be increased by a percentage charge on the 
amount in excess or shall be wholly substituted by a straight per- 
centage charge on the total invoice value. Two countries dispense 
altogether with the fixed certification fee corresponding to fixed 
invoice values and exact a straight percentage charge on the invoice 
value whatever the amount, one of these requiring in addition thereto 
a stamp tax. The percentage charge in all these cases is, in reality, 
an added ad valorem duty on the merchandise imported. 

It w^as disclosed that the diversity as to system of consular tariffs 
adopted by the several countries was not more marked than the 
inequality of the charges exacted by them. Takmg, for example, an 
invoice value of $2,000, the consular certification fees range upward 
from a minimum of $1.65 to a maximum of $60. 

Representatives of those countries which exact fees for the consular 
certification of invoices in the nature of a tax on the merchandise 
imported were generally of the opinion that it was impracticable to 
replace that system with the so-called flat-rate system. It was con- 
ceded by them, however, that the charges were in many cases exces- 
sive, operated to restrict commerce, and ought in such cases to be 
reduced, but not below the point necessary for the maintenance of 
the consular service. The final agreement of the committee, which 
was accepted by the conference, is set forth in Article VI of the reso- 
lutions reported under this head as follows : 

Consular fees should be moderate and should not constitute an indirect method of 
increasing customs receipts. It is believed that it is for the best interests of the 
international commerce of this continent that these fees, no matter what method is 
employed for their collection, be limited as far as possible to amounts necessary to 
cover the cost of maintaining the consular service. 

The uniform rule proposed in the instructions to the United States 
delegation that fines and penalties be not imposed on account of 
technical errors in documents authenticated by consul, and that mani- 
fest clerical errors therein be condoned (subdivision 5, supra), met 



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with general opposition on the ground that a provision to this effect 
would contravene a principle of jurisprudence of many Latin- 
American Republics, affirmed by their highest courts, namely, that 
mistakes in documents attested by consul raise a presumption of 
fraud which must be rebutted by conclusive proof. It was urged 
that this principle was of the greatest efficacy in protecting their 
customs revenues against frauds. The attempt to secure an accept- 
ance of this rule had to be abandoned. 

The second set of resolutions reported by the committee, under the 
heading "Customs Regulations," and adopted by the conference, are 
a restatement, with modifications wliich made them acceptable to 
the committee, of resolutions of the New York Customs Congress, 
which had never been placed before the several countries in a formal 
way for their adhesion. It was deemed advisable by the committee 
that these conclusions of the New York congress should be reaffirmed 
and formally submitted with its other recommendations, beheving 
them to be an essential step in the unification of fustoms adminis- 
tration. 

In the third set of resolutions reported by the committee and 
approved by the conference an effort has been made to segregate and 
define that part of the work of unification and simplification of cus- 
toms regulations which is technical in nature and requires the pre- 
liminary study of specialists. A definite program for this study, 
which includes customhouse nomenclature, nas been outfined. The 
conference has followed the precedent of the Third Conference and 
of the New York Customs Congress in devolving this work upon the 
section of customs, commerce, and statistics of the Pan American 
Union, in the light of whose investigation it is hoped a subsequent 
conference may take up and complete the projected unification. 

In the discussion in the committee in respect of census matters it 
was developed that the periodical taking of a census of population, as 
now^ required by law, had been prevented in certain of the American 
Repubhcs by the fact that it would operate to disturb the represen- 
tation in their legislatures, in view of the requirement that such rep- 
resentation shall be based on population, and that considerations of 
this character might embarrass the talcing of an ail-American census 
for 1920, as suggested in the memorandum of the Director of the Cen- 
sus of the United States. The sentiment of the committee was favor- 
able to the taking of such a census wherever practicable, and that it 
should include also a census of industries and general resources. The 
committee was of the opinion that the fines upon which such census 
should be taken and the degree of uniformity which could be observed 
in such an undertaldng and in the compilation of commercial statis- 
tics could, in the hmited time available to the committee, be indicated 
only in general outfine, and must be left mainly to the study and analy- 
sis of specialists in such matters, and that the duty of making such 
study and analysis and formulating timely recommendations to the 
several governments would be appropriately devolved upon the sec- 
tion of customs, commerce, and statistics of the Pan American Union. 
Resolutions of this character and in substantial accord with the views 
expressed in the memoranda of the expert statistician of the Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor and of the Director of the Census trans- 
mitted with and made part of the instructions to the delegation of the 
United States were adopted. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 17 

The text of the report of this committee will be found in Appendix 
II and that of the resolutions, five in number, in Appendix \ . 

The efficient consul general of the United States at Buenos Aires, 
Mr. Richard M. Bartleman, cheerfully'cooperated with the represent- 
ative of the United States on this committee and rendered valuable 
assistance. 

SANITARY POLICE AND QUARANTINE. 

This subject was considered by a committee which was composed 
of one member from each delegation, and of which Dr. Carlos M. de 
Pena, of Uruguay, was elected chairman. 

The instructions of the Secretary of State directed us to "endeavor 
to procure from the conference a recommendation that the conclusions 
of the Mexican and Costa Rican Sanitary Conferences be adopted by 
the respective countries." A memorandum was presented by the rep- 
resentative of the United States delegation reviewing the work of 
previous conferences on sanitary matters and recommending, in ac- 
cordance with our instructions, the adoption of the conclusions of the 
sanitary conferences referred to. Discussion centered on the pro- 
posed amendment to Article IX of the sanitary convention of Wash- 
ington, whereby the official proof of freedom from infectious disease 
must be "satisfactory to the interested party." The representatives 
of six countries objected to these words on the ground that they might 
put the commerce of a weak country at the mercy of the caprice of a 
stronger. After considerable debate it was unanimously agreed to 
propose in place of the words suggested the following phrase : Official 
proof "satisfactory to both parties interested." As these words ap- 
peared to the representative of the United States to accomplish the 
purpose intended, he, after consultation with the other members of 
the American delegation, accepted them, and they were incorporated 
in the resolution adopted. 

Notwithstanding his general agreement with this proposition, the 
representative of Venezuela had certain reservations which he de- 
sired to put on record, and by vote of the committee he was per- 
mitted to append a statement to the draft resolution submitted to 
the conference. The resolution as finally adopted accomplishes, 
therefore, all that the delegation of the United States w^as instructed 
to obtain. 

The representative of the United States further suggested to the 
committee the desirabilitv of including a recommendation that in 
case of epidemics the respective national governments assume con- 
trol of the situation. In the opinion of the committee this point was 
covered by the fact that such a resolution was already included in the 
recommendations of previous conferences, and he did not think it 
wise to press the matter. 

The text of the report of the committee will be found in Appen- 
dix J J, and that of the resolution in Appendix W. 

PATENTS, TRADE-MARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS. 

These subjects cover three topics of the program and the work of 
two committees, but they are so closely related that they can be 
treated together to better advantage than separately At the outset 

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18 FOURTH INTERN ATIONAL, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

we are pleased to state that we have succeeded in obtaining the 
adoption of suitable conventions to regularize the mutual protec- 
tion of these classes of property among the American Republics. 

The history of the proceedings relating to the adoption of conven- 
tions between the American States upon these subjects is outlined 
in the report of the committee on patents, trade-marks, and copy- 
rights of the Third International Conference held at Rio de Janeiro 
in 1906, published on pages 154-160 of the Report of the Delegates 
of the United States (S. Doc. No. 365, 59th Cong., 2d sess.), which it 
is unnecessary to reproduce here. 

As a result of the discussion in the Third Conference, a conven- 
tion relating to patents and trade-marks was signed, not only by the 
representatives of the other American Republics, but also by those of 
the United States. The proposed convention was placed before 
the United States Senate for approval, but was subsequently with- 
drawn. The treaty was opposed principally on the ground that the 
provisions of the convention, if applied to the United States, would 
give force and effect to patents issued in accordance with the laws of 
any of the States adhering to the convention, notwithstanding the 
fact that some of these States granted patents without previous 
inquiry as to the usefulness of the article as to whether it was really 
an invention or\n improvement. It was sho^^^l that the patent 
laws of the United States require a careful examination to be made 
of the state of the prior art to determine whether the invention 
claimed was new and useful as a prerequisite to the grant of a patent ; 
and it was urged that this system, which is in effect the basis of the 
commercial progress of the United States, should be maintained in 
its entirety. 

It was also shown that the carrying out of the convention would 
oblige the United States to furnish authenticated copies of patents, 
assignments of records, and other documents, imposing an enor- 
mous and needless burden, upon that country. And the further 
ground of objection was presented that the treaty would have been 
in conflict with the most advanced systems and particularly incon- 
sistent with the Paris convention of 1883, the merits of which have 
been recognized by previous Pan American conferences. 

We have the honor to report that the three distinct conventions 
adopted by the conference can be entered into by the United States 
without disruption of its own patent, trade-mark, and copyright laws, 
and will not interfere with the internal laws of the other American 
Republics. 

The conventions finally adopted are substantially the same as 
those drafted by Mr. Edward B. Moore, the Commissioner of Patents, 
who accompanied the delegation as expert attache. The conven- 
tions are so drafted that they will harmonize (a) with the Interna- 
tional Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed 
at Paris in 1883, and amended at Brussels in 1900, to which the 
majority of the European nations are adherents; (6) with the treaty 
of Paris of 1891, which provides for the international registration of 
trade-marks, and to which several of the European nations are adher- 
ents; and (c) with some modifications, harmonize with the copyright 
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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 19 

PATENTS. 

In the drafting of the convention- on patents (Appendix J) the 
conference has taken into consideration the objections raised by 
many of the States to the Rio convention, and has respected the 
provisions of the internal laws of the several signatory States. Gen- 
eral principles protecting and safeguarding the rights of inventors 
are proclaimed, and the wa}^ is made easy for future uniform and 
universal legislation. While certain portions of the treaties of Paris 
and of Brussels have been adopted, it is provided that the present 
convention be considered as a substitute for all former treaties on the 
subject, and it is recommended that it be finally adopted by the 
signatory States as a basis for the enactment of their respective 
patent laws. 

TRADE-MARKS. 

The Convention for the Protection of Trade-Marks (Appendix K) 
declares that any mark, duly registered in one of the signatory States 
shall be considered as also registered in the other States, without 
prejudice to the rights of third persons or to the provisions of the 
laws of each State governing the same. Provision is made for the 
payment of a small fee to cover the expenses of the international 
registration. It provides that the deposit of a mark in one State 
produces in favor of the depositor a right of priority for a period of 
six months, so as to enable him to make the deposit in the other 
States. Trade-marks are then defined. Questions arising as to 
the priority of the adoption of a trade-mark must be^ decided with 
due regard to the date of the deposit in the country where the first 
application therefor was made. Provision is made that the falsi- 
fication, imitation, or unauthorized use of a trade-mark as also the 
false representation as to the origin of the product, can be prose- 
cuted by the interested party in accordance with the laws of the 
State wherein the offense is committed. The grounds upon which 
trade-marks can be canceled are also stated. Commercial names 
are protected without deposit or registration, whether they form 
part of a trade-mark or not. The convention also provides for the 
establishment of international bureaus at Havana and Rio de Janeiro, 
and defines the duties of the same. The registration of a trade- 
mark obtained in any one of the signatory States is made effective 
throughout all the Republics represented in the conference, upon a 
certificate of ownership thereof, issued by such State, being regis- 
tered in either of the international bureaus. 

This form of international registration differs from that set forth 
in the Rio convention, wherein it is provided that the registration 
of a trade-mark secured in either of the two bureaus is made effective 
throughout all of the States, as if made in each of the several signa- 
tory States, save that any State is allowed one year from the date of 
ratification by the bureau within which to accept or reject such reg- 
istration. 

It is believed that the adoption of this convention will promote 
comity and commerce among the several Republics, and, to that end^ 
it is hoped that such action will be taken by our Government at the 
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COPYRIGHTS. 

In framing the Copyright Convention (Appendix L) the end kept 
in view was to provide legal protection in all the countries of the 
Union for works produced in any one or more of these countries, and 
for works produced anywhere by citizens of one of the signatory 
States. It was proposed at the same time to make this protection 
effective without an international court or bureau, relying instead on 
the laws of the several countries for the maintenance of the rights 
guaranteed by this convention. In pursuance of this purpose it was 
found advisable not to adopt the provisions for two bureaus contained 
in the convention signed at Rio de Janeiro, August 23, 1906, and 
which has been adopted as regards trade-marks. These bureaus 
appear to be unnecessary and calculated to render impracticable any 
convention embodying them. While the effectiveness of the present 
convention wiU depend upon the existence of proper and well-executed 
copyright laws in the several countries, it was not thought desirable to 
seek, through the ratification of this convention, to pledge each coun- 
try to adopt such copyright laws as might be necessary for a satis- 
factory execution thereof, in case such laws were not already in exist- 
ence. In any case where the requisite legislation had not been 
adopted the nation concerned might avoid the obligations of such a 
proposed pledge by simply refusing to ratify the convention; and any 
nation, finding it advantageous to proceed under a legal system that 
afforded no protection to the works of foreign authors, or even to the 
works of the authors of the country in question, might not be expected 
to expedite the adoption of new laws, except under some motive more 
powerful than that offered by a suggested pledge presented in this 
convention. 

It is desirable that the laws of the several States should provide for 
a uniform general term of copyright protection ; and if am' nation has 
established a shorter term than the legal term estabhshed in other 
nations it may be supposed that, desirous of securing to its own 
authors rights as extensive as those enjoyed by the authors of other 
countries, it will, on its own initiative, so modify its laws as to bring 
them into harmony with the legislation of the other nations of the 
Union. 

In adopting this convention the conference has aimed at effective- 
ness by avoiding impracticable details of organization. It has sought 
to secure, with a minimum of formality, trouble, and cost, protection 
in all countries of the union for all works that may be made subject to 
a law of copyright. The definition of works for wliich protection is 
sought under tliis convention is made sufficienthT^ comprehensive to 
embrace "every production which can be published by any means 
whatsoever of impression or republication." The right of property in 
any such production recognized in any State in accordance ^.vith its 
laws shall have full recognition in all the other States, ^^•ithout com- 
pliance with any formality other than that there shall appear in or 
on the work in question an indication that the right of property in it 
is reserved. The authors of the works protected under this conven- 
tion, or their assigns, shall enjov in the signatoiy countries the rights 
which the laws of these countries respectfully confer: but in no case 
shall the term of protection accorded exceed that of the country of 
origin, the countrv of orig-in being defined as that in wliich the work 



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is first published. Authorized translations also are protected in the 
same manner as original works. 

In conclusion we beg to say that great interest was manifested by 
the members of the Committee on Patents and Trade-marks in the 
meeting of the international union for the protection of industrial 
property, which is to be held in Washington in May, 1911, and to 
which all the American Republics have been invited. 

The report of the committee on copyrights will be found in Appen- 
dix LL. 

TREATY FOR THE ARBITRATION OF PECUNIARY CLAIMS. 

The eleventh subject of the program of the conference was the 
' ' consideration of the continuance of the treaties on pecuniary claims 
after their expiration." 

By the Second International American Conference, held in the City 
of Mexico, a treaty was concluded, January 19, 1902, by which the 
high contracting parties agreed (Art. I) "to submit to arbitration all 
claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their 
respective citizens, and which can not be amicably adjusted through 
diplomatic channels, when said claims are of sufficient importance to 
warrant the expenses of arbitration." It was further agreed (Art. II) 
that all controversies embraced in the treaty should be submitted to 
the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration established under 
the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 
signed at The Hague, July 29, 1899, unless the parties to the dispute 
should prefer to create a special jurisdiction; but as the American 
nations, with the exception of the United States and Mexico, were not 
represented in the first Hague conference, it was provided (Art. Ill) 
that the treaty should be obHgatory only upon States which had 
subscribed to that convention and upon those which should ratify 
the protocol, just then adopted at Mexico, looking to the adhesion of 
aU the American States thereto. Finally, it was stipulated (Art. V) 
that the treaty should be binding upon the ratifying States from the 
date on which five of them should have ratified it, and that it should 
remain in force for five years. 

By reason of this limitation, the question of renewing the treaty 
was one of the subjects committed to the Third International Ameri- 
can Conference, which was held at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. In its 
instructions to its delegates to that conference the Government 
of the United States said: 

This is a matter special to the American States and it calls for special consideration 
* * *. The treaty was to continue for five years. It has been ratified by only five 
powers, inchiding the United States. The treaty should be extended for another five 
years, and an urgent effort should be made to secure the adherence of the other powers. 
You can readily ascertain whether the failure of ratification by twelve out of the 
seventeen powers who signed the treaty'was due to some objectionable feature which 
can be remedied, or to fundamental objections, or to indifference. This treaty is the 
very simplest and narrowest form of a general agreement to arbitrate, and so long as 
three-fourths of the American States have not reached this point of agreement the 
discussion of any proposals for compulsory arbitration of a wider scope would seem to 
be at least premature. 

When the c[uestion of renewing the treaty came to be considered 
by the committee to which it was referred, it gave rise to much dis- 
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22 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

fact been ratified by eight, instead of by only five, of the signatory 
States, namely, by the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, 
Salvador, Honduras, Peru, and Bolivia; but a large majority of the 
committee desired to modify it by adding a clause to the effect that 
arbitration should take place only after the legal recourses afTorded 
by the courts of the country against which the claim was made had 
been exhausted, the reason assigned for this proposal being that the 
phraseology of the fu-st article of the treaty lent itself to the inter- 
pretation that the ordinary course of justice existing under the 
internal organization of each signatory State was to be superseded by 
international arbitration. The minority of the committee main- 
tained that this objection was not well founded; but it was only after 
much discussion and delay that a report satisfactory to the majority 
of the committee and acceptable to the minority was secured unani- 
mously recommending that the treaty be extended. This report con- 
tained the following paragraphs: 

This partial ratification (of the treaty by the eight powers above named) may, 
perhaps, have been due to the precise terms in which the first article provides for 
arbitral jurisdiction, this being possibly interpreted to mean that the inherent internal 
rights and prerogatives of a state were in all cases to be substituted by an arbitral 
tribunal whose jiirisdiction could not be avoided. 

It is clear that such an interpretation is not well founded. If it be established that 
all claims for losses and damages brought against a state by the citizens of another 
must be submitted to arbitration, when they can not be adjusted through diplomatic 
channels, it is but reasonable to presume that there are cases in which diplomatic 
intervention is justified. 

The internal sovereignty of a state, an essential condition of its existence as an 
independent international power, consists explicitly in the right it always preserv^es 
of regulating such juridical acts as are consummated within its territory, by its laws, 
and of trying these by its tribunals, excepting in cases where, for special reasons (and 
to these international law devotes particular attention) they are converted into 
questions of an international character. 

It was deemed advisable, however, to amend the treatj^ by striking 
out the third article, the substance of which is given above, the pro- 
visions of this article having ceased to be applicable to existing con- 
ditions because of the adhesion of the American nations, after the 
conference at Mexico, to The Hague convention of 1899. Moreover, 
as the term of five years, during which the treaty was to remain in 
force, was understood to run as to each contracting party from the 
date of its act of ratification, it was decided to fix one uniform day on 
which the treaty, as amended and renewed, should terminate; and 
the day adopted for this purpose was December 31, 1912. A treaty 
designed to accomplish these objects was accordingly signed August 
13, 1906. 

Such being the situation, we were instructed, ''as The Hague gen- 
eral arbitration treaties, which were adhered to by most American 
Republics in 1907," did not "satisfactoril}?' cover the subject," to 
"urge the continuance of the treaties on pecuniary claims after their 
expiration," and, if any government represented in the conference 
should desire to discontinue them, to ascertain its reasons therefor. 

According to the advices received by the department previously 
to our departure, the treaties of Mexico and Rio had been ratified by 
eight powers, namely, the United States, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, 
Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua. By the summary sub- 
mitted, however, to the conference b}^ the third committee of the 
reports and memorials presented by the various delegations, it appears 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 23 

that there should be added to the hst Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, 
and Salvador, making 12 Governments in all.^ 

The question of continuing the treaties was referred to a committee 
composed as follows: Dr. Gonzalo Ramirez (Uruguay), chairman; 
Mr. Mario Estrada (Guatemala), secretary; and Messrs. John B. 
Moore (United States), Eduardo L. Bidau (Argentine Repubhc), 
Gastao da Cunha (Brazil), Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic), and 
Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico). 

After the first formal session of the committee a draft of a new 
treaty, to replace the treaties of Mexico and Rio, was communicated 
by the chairman to the other members. This project contained the 
following article: 

Article II. In case the nation against which the claim is made does not admit the 
procedure by the diplomatic channel, the arbitral tribunal shall treat this point of 
difference as a preliminary question, and if it decides that the diplomatic procedure 
is not appropriate, the claim shall be dismissed. 

If this preliminary question shall be resolved in favor of the procedure by the dip- 
lomatic way, the arbitral tribunal shall then take cognizance of the merits of the case.^ 

It will be observed that this proposal revived, in a specific but more 
pointed form, the question which provoked so much discussion and 
proved to be so difficult of adjustment at Rio in 1906. It was re- 
ceived by the committee with general approval. It was opposed by 
the member from the United States on the ground that it tended to 
limit the freedom of diplomatic action; that it would have the effect 
of inviting denials of the propriety of such action, and of dividing, 
delaying, and complicating the process of arbitration; and that it 
would be incapable of exact execution, for the reason that the ques- 
tion whether diplomatic intervention was justified could not usually 
be determined without an examination of the merits of the case. In 
the midst of this division of opinion, a solution was at one time sug- 
gested to the effect that the tribunal of arbitration should be required 
to decide all questions submitted to it, but this suggestion found little 
support, since it was not thought to be desirable to impose upon the 
arbitrators the burden of deciding questions which might be alto- 
gether immaterial to the proper disposition of the case before them. 
Finally, the member from the United States urged that the attempt 
to make substantial changes should be deferred till the apprehended 
defect should actually be shown to exist and that this position was 
all the more reasonable in view of the circumstance that none of the 
ratifying Governments had complained of the manner in which the 
treaties had operated. In the end, it was, after much discussion, 
agreed to adhere to the text of the first article of the treaty of Mexico, 
with the addition, proposed by the member from the United States, 
of the stipulation that the decision of the arbitrators should "be 
rendered in accordance with the principles of international law," this 

1 The dates of ratification are as follows: United States, Mar. 2, 1907; Chile, June 28, 1909; Colombia, Aug. 
29, 1908;- Costa Rica, Oct. 28, 1908; Cuba, Mar. 17, 1908; Ecuador, November, 1909; Guatemala, Apr. 20, 1907, 
and Feb. 15, 1909; Honduras, Feb. .5, 1907; Mexico, Nov. 18, 1907; Nicaragua, Feb. 20, 1908; Panama, date 
not given; Salvador, May 11, 1907. The situation in the nonratifying countries was as follows: Argentine 
Republic, approved by the Chamber of Deputies, but still pending in the Senate; Brazil, pending in the 
Congress; Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Paraguay, no statement presented; Peru, pending in the Con- 
gress; Uruguay, not sent to the legislative body:"Venezuela, no statement presented. 

2 ArtIculo il. En el caso en que la nacidn contra la cualse deduce el reclamo no reconociese la proceden- 
cia de la via diplomatica, el tribunal arbitral fallara como cuestion previa ese punto de disidencia y si 
juzgase que no precede la via diplomatica la reclamacion quedara desechada. 

Si esa cuestion previa fuese resuelta afirmando la procedencia de la, via diplomdtica, ei tribunal arbitral 
entrara a conocer del fondo del asunto. 



24 FOURTH INTERNATIOlsrAL. CONFEEEXCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

formula, or its equivalent, havino; usually been inserted in the gen- 
eral claims conventions of the United States, although it may be 
regarded as a declaration of the obvious intention of the contracting 
parties. 

The preservation of the terms of submission of the treaty of Mex- 
ico, without quahfication or impairment, having been secured, the 
committee readily concurred in the view that, as that treaty, although 
it had been amended at Rio, would by reason of its reference to cer- 
tain articles of The Hague convention of 1899, which has been replaced 
by the convention of 1907, have to be amended yet again, it would be 
more convenient and more businesslike to make the new treaty com- 
plete in itself and to cast it in such form as to render unnecessary its 
recurrent adjustment to possible changes in The Hague conventions. 
This was done. Moreover, as the renewal of the treaties of Mexico 
and Rio had been attended with difficulties, it was proposed by the 
representative of the United States that the duration of the new agree- 
ment should be made indefinite, subject to the right of a ratifying 
power to withdraw after two years' notice. This proposal was 
adopted, and a clause was added continuing in force the treaty of 
Mexico after December 31, 1912, as to any claims which might, prior 
to that date, have been submitted to arbitration under its provisions. 

After a final agreement was reached on the text of the treaty the 
previous discussions as to the question of diplomatic intervention were 
revived over the draft of a report which was presented b}^ the chair- 
man of the committee. In this paper, in which there was an exposi- 
tion of general principles, interwoven with quotations from writers, 
certain expressions of public men were cited as tending to show that 
the question of the propriety of the resort to the diplomatic channel 
might be treated as a previous or preliminary question, apart from the 
merits of the case. In this predicament the member from the United 
States deeming himself to be precluded, for reasons which have been 
sufficiently explained, from accepting all the conclusions of the report, 
proposed to add to it and to sign for himself the following declaration: 

The undersigned, while he refrains from entering into a discussion of the statements 
of general principles embodied in the foregoing report, deems it proper to observe that 
he does not consider it to be practicable to lay down in advance precise and unyielding 
formulas by which the question of a denial of justice may in every instance be deter- 
mined. Still less does he believe it to be possible to treat this matter as a preliminary 
question which may be decided apart from the merits of the case, or to include in a 
general treaty of arbitration a clause to that effect. In the multitude of cases that 
have, during the past 120 years, been disposed of by international arbitration the ques- 
tion of a denial of justice has arisen in many and in various forms that could not haA-e 
been foreseen; nor can human intelligence forecast the forms in which it may arise 
hereafter. In the future, as in the past, this question will be disposed of by the 
amicable methods of diplomacy and arbitration, and in that spirit of mutual respect 
and conciliation which happily grows stronger among nations with the lapse of years. 

As it was thought that this declaration would, if dealt with in the 
manner proposed, have the appearance and effect of a minority report, 
it was at length agreed that it should be embodied in the report of the 
committee (Appendix MM), where it is followed b}' the statement 
that the other members of the committee accept it, since they do not 
consider it to be in conflict with what is set forth in the report. In 
this way the unanimous desire of the committee for a report which 
should bear the signatures of all its members was happily attained. 

It is a pleasure specially to acknowledge the untiring efforts which 
the eminent chairman of the committee put forth to expedite its 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 25 

labors. As he was at the time indisposed, the meetings of the 
committee were usually held at the house of the Uruguayan Lega- 
tion, of which he was the head; but in accordance with his wishes, 
they were held by special appointment, without regard to official 
notices, whenever, in the day or in the evening, the members could 
conveniently assemble; and they were thus not only more frequent 
but longer in duration than was customary. There can be no doubt 
that the attainment of the desire, felt by every member of the com- 
mittee, for a prompt and satisfactory termination of its labors, was 
facilitated by the example of industry and high purpose set by the 
venerable man who presided over its deliberations and by the feeling 
of deep respect in which he was held. 

The treaty (Appendix M) was adopted by the conference unani- 
mously, the Venezuelan delegate stating, however, that Venezuela 
would sign the treaty with the special reservation that recourse to 
diplomacy should take place only when there had been a denial of 
justice. 

INTERCHANGE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS. 

For the purpose of promoting in each of the American nations a 
more perfect understanding of the intellectual life of the others, 
two series of resolutions were framed and adopted by the conference, 
relating to the interchange of professors and students among the 
universities of the countries represented in the conference. The 
first series recommends that provisions should be made under which 
professors in one university may be sent from time to time to give 
lectures or courses of instruction in other universities, such lectures 
or courses of instruction to deal chiefly with scientific material of 
special interest to Americans or with the conditions of one or another 
American country, especially with the conditions of that country 
to which the professor in any given case may belong. The second 
series of resolutions recognizes the interchange of students among 
American universities as a means of confirming the sohdarity of 
the nations of the continent. The details of the methods suggested 
for effecting these interchanges are contained in the resolutions 
already referred to and which are submitted with this report. 
(Appendix X.) 

APPRECIATION OF THF PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS HELD AT 
SANTIAGO, CHILE, DECEMBER, 1908. 

In pursuance of your instructions on this subject, the delegation 
of the United States supported a resolution, which was adopted, to 
the effect that the conference noted with pleasure the initiative of 
holding a Pan American Scientific Congress at Santiago, Chile, and 
the results there accomplished; also that the Governments of the 
American States be informed that the conference would consider 
advisable similar reunions in cities of America to be hereafter selected . 
The text of this resolution will be found in Appendix Y. 

A resolution was also adopted regarding the Fourth Scientific 
Congress, held at Buenos Aires in 1910, congratulatory of the work 
there accomplished and expressing the hope that these reunions 
should be frequent. (Appendix Z.) 



26 FOtlETH INTERISTATIOlSrAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 
OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL. 

The program called for the adoption of a resolution instructing 
the governing board of the International Bureau of the American 
Republics to consider and recommend the manner in which the 
American Republics might see fit to celebrate the opening of the 
Panama Canal. After some discussion the second committee decided 
to report to the conference a resolution, which was passed, whereby 
the final settlement of that question is left to the governing board 
of the Union of American Republics in Washington. This resolution 
will be found in Appendix AA. 

FUTURE CONFERENCES. 

The subject of the time and place of the next conference was dis- 
posed of by the committee to which it was referred at its first and 
only meeting. There was considerable discussion privately among 
the delegates prior to the meeting of the committee and a large num- 
ber thought that the conference should select Santiago, the capital 
city of Chile, as the logical point where the Fifth International Con- 
ference of American States should be held. It was urged by some, 
on the other hand, that the precedent established by the conference 
held in the City of Mexico, and substantially followed by the one 
held in Rio, leaving the decision of both place and time of subsequent 
conferences to the governing board of the Pan American Union should 
be adhered to and at the first meeting of the committee on future 
conferences the delegate from Chile moved that the entire subject 
matter be left to the decision of the governing board. This motion 
prevailed, and the committee reported accordingly to the conference. 
When the resolution came up for adoption by the conference there 
was one dissenting vote. The delegate from the Dominican Repubhc 
voted in the negative, and, in explaining his vote, stated that he was 
of the opinion that Havana, Cuba, should be named as the place for 
the holding of the next conference. 

The delegate of the United States of America, pursuant to instruc- 
tions, urged in committee the advisabihty of holding the conferences 
at intervals of six years as a minimum and thereby aft'ording suffi- 
cient time for the ratification of the conventions adopted at the 
various conferences, but he deferred to the otherwise unanimous 
wish of the committee that an interval of not more than five years 
should elapse between the reunions. The resolution finally adopted 
(see Appendix BB) provides that the governing board shall have 
the power to advance or postpone the date of the next conference 
should circumstances arise making it desirable so to do. 

GENERAL WELFARE. 

The committee on general welfare was chiefly negative in its 
activity. It was expected, among other things, to consider questions 
on which action might be requested, but which had not been intro- 
duced into the program. Its chief function was, therefore, to con- 
sider new topics that might be proposed, and to make recommenda- 
tions to the conference respecting them. In this capacity its work 
was important in that through it the conference was able to keep 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 27 

itself free from discussions that might have consumed much time 
and would have been fruitless. The members of this committee, as 
well as the majority of the members of the conference, appreciated 
the necessity of giving to the topics of the program the most thor- 
ough consideration; and that this might be done it appeared to be 
a reasonable rule for the guidance of the committee to withhold 
from the general sessions all subjects not involved in the program 
unless they should seem to the members extraordinarily urgent. 
The maintenance of this feature of organization in future confer- 
ences will greatly facilitate the work demanded by the specific pro- 
gram and enable the conference in its general sessions peacefully to 
avoid discussions on questions regarding which no practicable or 
profitable result can be reached. 

CLOSING SESSIONS. 

The last session for the transaction of business took place on the 
27th of August. 

The thanks of the delegates were voted unanimously to the presi- 
dent. Dr. Bermejo; to the secretary general and his staff; and to the 
press of the Argentine Republic. The president and secretary 
general made speeches, translations of which will be found in 
Appendix D. 

On a motion signed by Messrs. Portela, Toledo Herrarte, Cruz, 
Lazo Arriaga, and Mejia, respectively ministers to the United States 
of the Argentine RepubHc, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, and Sal- 
vador, and of Gen. Carlos Garcia Velez, formerly Cuban minister at 
Washington, being all members of the governing board of the Inter- 
national Bureau of the American Repubhcs when the program of 
the Fourth Conference was settled, it was unanimously voted to 
send a telegram to the Hon. P. C. Knox, Secretary of State of the 
United States, thanking him for the part he had taken in the arrange- 
ment of the program and congratulating Mm upon the success of 
the conference. 

At the previous session of the conference, upon the motion of a 
delegate from Brazil, it was unanimously voted that a telegram be 
sent to the Hon. Ehhu Root, expressing sentiments of appreciation 
and remembrance. 

The closing session of the conference was held on Tuesday, August 
30, Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Larreta, who had succeeded Dr. Victorino 
de la Plaza as minister for foreign affairs, being in the chair. His 
exellency made a speech, to which Dr. Toledo Herrarte, minister of 
Guatemala to the United States and chairman of liis delegation, 
replied. Translations of these speeches accompany this report as 
Appendix E. 

CONCLUSION. 

We feel that it is scarcely within our province to compare the 
results of this conference with those of its predecessors; the more so 
as sufficient time has not elapsed since it came to an end for the 
formation of an accurate opinion on that subject. It may not be 
improper, however, to say that while the program was not so extensive 
as those of the three preceding conferences every subject upon it 
was effectively dealt with. There can be no doubt, moreover, that 



28 FOUBTH INTERNATION.'yL, COXFEKENCE OF AMEKICAN STATES. 

quite apart from the actual work accomplished, the constant inter- 
course and exchange of views in frienaly conversation, during a 
period of nearly two months, between representative men from all 
parts of America in an atmosphere of harmony such as has been so 
marked a feature of this conference, can not fail to react upon and 
to draw closer the relations between the countries represented. 

Indeed a distinct improvement has already been perceptible during 
the progress of the conference in the relations between several of the 
RepubHcs, and in our opinion it is difficult to overestimate the 
advantage to the cause of Pan Americanism to be derived from the 
periodical meetings of these international conferences. 

We can not conclude this report without an allusion to the generous 
hospitaHty of which we have oeen the recipients here. Many enter- 
tainments have been given and excursions to places of interest 
arranged for the delegates to the conference, and we retain an agree- 
able recollection of the kindness and courtesy of everyone with whom 
we have come in contact; nor should we omit a special acknowledge- 
ment of the courtesy and cooperation of our minister, Mr. SherriU, 
and the staff of the legation. We have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servants, 

Henry White. 

E. H. Crowder. 

Lewis Nixon. 

John B. Moore. 

Bernard Moses. 

Lamar C. Quintero. 

Paxil S. Reinsch. 

David Kinley. 
To the Hon. Philander C. Knox, 

Secretary of State. 

Buenos Aires, August 30, 1910. 



LIST OF APPENDICES. 



Miscellaneous: 

A. Program and regulations of the conference, p. 31. 

B. Instructions of the Secretary of State, p. 36. 

C. Speeches of Dr. Victorino de la Plaza, Mr. Henry White, and Dr. Antonio 

Bermejo at the opening session, July 12, 1910, p. 44. 

D. Speeches of Dr. Antonio Bermejo and Mr. Epifanio Portela at the session of 

August 27, 1910, p. 50. 

E. Speeches of Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Larreta and Dr. Luis Toledo Herrarte at the 

closing session, August 30, 1910, p. 53. 

F. List of the delegates and officials, p. 58. 

G. List of the committees and subjects, p. 61. 

H. Reports of the delegations as to the action taken by their Governments on 
the resolutions and conventions adopted by the Third Conference, p. 65. 

I. Report of the third committee on the above (Appendix H), p. 97. 
Conventions: 

J. Patents of invention, designs, and industrial models, p. 102. 
K. Trade-marks, p. 112. 
L. Copyrights, p. 128. 

M. Pecuniary claims, p. 138. • 

Resolutions: 

N. Modification of program, p. 147. 

O. Celebration of the centenary of American Republics, p. 148. 
P. Resolution concerning the Coffee Congress provided for by the Third Con- 
ference, p. 152. 
Q. Reorganization of the Union of American Republics, p. 156. 
R. Resolution submitting draft of proposed convention for the reorganization of 

the LTnion of American Republics, p. 168. 
. S. Resolution expressing thanks to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, p. 178. 
T. Resolution regarding the Pan American Railway, p. 182. 
U. Resolution regarding the more rapid mail, passenger, and express steamship 

service between the American Republics, p. 186. 
V. Resolutions concerning the unification of (1) consular documents; (2) customs 
regulations; (3) regarding the establishment of a section of commerce, 
customs, and statistics in the Pan American Union; (4) commercial statis- 
tics; and (5) census, p. 192. 
W. Resolution on sanitary police, p. 222. 

X. Resolution on the interchange of university prof essors and students, p. 226. 
Y. Resolution concerning work of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held 

at Santiago, Chile, in December, 1908, p. 232. 
Z. Resolution concerning the work of the Fourth Pan American Scientific Con- 
gress, held at Buenos Aires, July, 1910, p. 236. 
AA. Resolution concerning the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal, 
p. 240. 

BB. Resolution concerning future conferences, p. 244. 
Motions: Appendix CC, p. 248. 
Reports of committees: 

DD. Report of committee on Coffee Congress, p. 251. 

EE. Report of the committee on the reorganization of the Pan American Union, 
p. 252. 

FF. Report of the committee on the Pan American Railway, p. 253. 
' GG. Report of the permanent Pan American Railway committee of Washington, 
p. 254. 

HH. Report of the committee on mail, passenger, and express steamship service 
between the American Republics, p. 261. 

II. Report of the committee on the unification of consular documents, customs 

regulations, commercial statistics, and census, p. 264. 
JJ. Report of the committee on sanitary police, p. 273. 

KK. Report of the committee on patents of invention, designs, and industria 
models, and trade-marks, p. 275. 

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30 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

Reports of committees — Continued. 

LL. Report of the committee on copyrights, p. 278. 

MM. Report of the committee on pecuniary claims, p. 280. 

NN. Report of the committee on the interchange of university professors and 

students, p. 273. 
00. Report of the committee on general welfare, p. 284. 
PP. Report of the committee on future conferences, p. 285. 
QQ. Report of the committee on thanks to Mr. Camegief p. 286. 

Note. — The full minutes of the conference in the four languages — English, Spanish, 
Portuguese, and French — will be printed and forwarded by 5ie Argentine Government 
to the participating countries. 






APPENDIX A. 



PROGRAM OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
AMERICAN REPUBLICS TO BE HELD AT BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINE 
REPUBLIC, JULY 10, 1910. 

I. 

The organization of the conference. 

II. 

Commemoration of tlie Argentine national centenary and of the independence of 
the American Kepublics as suggested by the fact that many of those nations celebrate 
their national centenaries in 1910 and neighboring years. 

III. 

Submission and consideration of the reports of each delegation as to the action of 
their respective Governments upon the resolutions and conventions of the thu-d con- 
ference held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906, including a report upon the results accom- 
plished by the Pan-American committees and the consideration of the extension of 
their functions. 

IV. 

Submission and consideration of the report of the Director of the International 
Bureau of the American Republics, together with consideration of the present organi- 
zation and of the recommendations for the possible extension and improvement of its 
efficiency. 

V. 

Resolution expressing appreciation to Mr. Andrew Carnegie of his generous gift for 
the construction of the new building of the American Republics in Washington. 

VI. 

Report on the progress which has been made on the Pan-American Railway since 
the Rio conference, and consideration of the possibility of cooperative action among 
the American Republics to secure the completion of the system. 

VII. 

Consideration of the conditions under which the establishment of more rapid mail, 
passenger, and express steamship service between the American Republics can be 
secured. 

VIII. 

Consideration of measures which will lead to uniformity among the American Repub- 
lics in consular documents and the technical requirements of customs regulations, 
and also in census and commercial statistics. 

IX. 

Consideration of the recommendation of the Pan-American sanitary congresses in 
regard to sanitary police and quarantine and of such additional recommendations as 
may tend to the elimination of preventable diseases. 

X. 

Consideration of practicable arrangement between the American Republics cover- 
ing patents, trade-marks, and copyrights. 

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32 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

XI. 

Consideration of a continuance of the- treaties on pecuniary claims after their 
expiration. 

XII. 

Consideration of a plan to promote the interchange of professors and students 
among the universities and academies of the American Republics. 

XIII. 

Resolution in appreciation of the Pan-American Scientific Congress, held at San- 
tiago, Chile, December, 1908. 

XIV. 

Resolution instructing the governing board of the International Bureau of the 
American Republics to consider and recommend the manner in which the American 
Republics may see fit to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. 

XV. 

Future conferences. 

Adopted by the committee on program, November 6, and approved by the govern- 
ing board of the International Bui-eau of the American Republics at the meeting of 
November 10, 1909. 

P. C. Knox, 
Chairman ex officio. 
Francisco J. Yanes, Secretary. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN 

CONFERENCE. 

The Personnel or the Conference. 

TEMPORARY PRESIDENT. 

Article 1. The secretary for foreign affairs of the Argentine Republic, or the person 
whom the chief executive may designate, shall preside at the opening session of the 
conference in the capacity of temporary president, and shall continue to preside as 
such until the permanent president is elected. 

OFFICIALS. 

Art. 2. There shall be a permanent president, who shall be elected by a ballot 
vote of the absolute majority of the delegates present, and a secretary general, who 
shall be a delegate appointed by the President of the Argentine Republic. 

In the first session there shall be settled by lot the numerical order of the delega- 
tions, for the purpose of establishing the order of precedence of their location and 
the order in which each is to supply the absence of the president. 

Wlien the delegation upon which it shall devolve to fix the presidency in a session 
consists of more than one member, it shall designate the delegate who is to perform 
the functions of vice president. 

PERMANENT PRESIDENT. 

Art. 3. The duties of the permanent president shall be: 

First. To preside at the meetings of the conference, contained in the order of the 
day. 

Second. To direct that each matter submitted to the conference be referred to the 
proper committee, unless by a vote of two-thirds of the delegates then present it shall 
be decided to proceed to its immediate consideration. 

Third. To concede tlie floor to the delegates in the order in which they may have 
requested it. 

Fourth. To decide all questions of order raised during the debates of the conference. 
Nevertheless, if any delegate shall so request, the ruling made by the chair shall be 
submitted to the conference for decision. 



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Fifth. To call for votes and to announce the result of the vote to the conference, as 
provided for by article 15. 

Sixth. To announce to the conference, through the secretary, at the close of each 
meeting the business to be discussed in the following meeting. But the conference 
may make such changes as it may deem advisable, either as regards the time of the 
meeting or as to the order in which the impending business shall be discussed. 

Seventh. To direct the secretary, after the approval of the minutes, to lay before the 
conference such matters as may have been presented since the last meeting. 

Eighth. To prescribe all necessary measures for the maintenance of order and strict 
compliance with the regulations. 

Art. 4. The duties of the vice presidents are: 

To act as substitute for the president in accordance with article 2. 

SECRETARY GENERAL. 

Art. 5. The duties of the secretary general are: 

First. To have under his charge all the secretaries, interpreters, and other em- 
ployees whom the Argentine Government may appoint for service with the confer- 
ence and to organize their respective duties. 

Second. To receive, distribute, and answer the official correspondence of the con- 
ference, in conformity with the resolutions of that body. 

Third. To prepare, or cause to be prepared, the minutes of the meeting in con- 
formity with the notes the secretaries shall furnish him, and to see that such minutes 
are printed and distributed among the delegates. 

Fourth. To revise the translations made by the interpreters of the conference. 

Fifth. To distribute among the committees the matters to be reported by them 
and to place at the disposal of the said committees everything that may be necessary for 
the discharge of their duties. 

Sixth. To prepare the order of the day in conformity with the instructions of the 
president. 

Seventh. To be the intermediary between the delegations or their respective mem- 
bers in all matters relating to the conference and between the delegates and the Argen- 
tine authorities. 

COMMITTEES OF THE CONFERENCE. 

Art. 6.^ The Fourth American International Conference shall have the following 
committees: 

1. To consider Subject I (program and credentials), five members. 

2. To consider Subjects II, V, XIII, and XIV, seven members. 

3. To consider Subject III, one member for each delegation. 

4. To consider Subject IV, one member for each delegation. 

5. To consider Subject VI, one member for each delegation. 

6. To consider Subject VII, seven members. 

7. To consider Subject VIII, one member for each delegation. 

8. To consider Subject IX, seven members. 

9. To consider an agi-eement between the American Republics relative to patents 
and trade-marks, seven members. 

10. To consider an agreement between the American Republics relative to copy- 
right, and Subject XII, seven members. 

11. To consider Subject XI, seven members. 

12. To consider Subject XV, seven members. 

13. Publication, five members. 

14. General welfare, five members. 

Art. 7. The members of the conference committees shall be appointed by the per- 
manent president, subject to the approval, by a majority vote, of the delegations 
present. 

Art. 8. Delegates may attend the meetings of all committees and participate in 
their debates, but they shall have no right to vote. 

Meetings of the Conference. 

NUMBER of meetings. 

Art. 9. The first meeting shall take place at the time and place designated by the 
Government of the Argentine Republic, and the fmther sessions at such days and 
hours as the conference may determine. 

1 Modified by resolution of the Fourth American International Conference at the session of July 14, 
1910. 

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34 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



QUORUM. 



Art. 10. To hold a meeting it is necessary that a majority of the nations attending 
the conference be represented by at least one of their delegates. 



READING OF THE MINUTES. 

Art. 11. At the opening of the meeting the secretary shall read the minutes of the 
preceding meeting, unless dispensed with. Notes shall be taken of any remarks the 
president or any of the delegates may make thereon, and approval of the minutes 
shall be in order. 

order of debate and votes. 

Art. 12. When the president shall have submitted for discussion the subjects con- 
tained in the order of the day, the conference shall first discuss them in a general 
way, and those approved shall be the object of a second discussion in detail, taking 
up one by one the articles contained in the project under discussion. 

Art. 13. The conference may, by a two-thirds vote of the delegations present, sus- 
pend the rules and proceed to the immediate discussion of a motion, which shall at 
once be discussed in general and in detail . 

Art. 14. All proposed amendments shall be referred to the respective committee, 
unless the conference shall decide otherwise; and they will be put to vote before the 
article or motion the text of which they are intended to modify. 

Art. 15. The delegation of each Republic represented at the conference shall have 
but one vote, and the votes shall be taken separately by countries and shall be re- 
corded on the minutes. 

Votes, as a general rule, shall be taken orally, unless any delegate should request 
that they be taken in writing. In this case each delegation shall deposit in an urn 
a ballot containing the name of the nation which it represents and the sense in which 
the vote is cast. The secretary will read aloud these ballots and count the votes. 

Art. 16. The conference shall not proceed to vote on any resolution or motion 
relating to any of the subjects included in the program except when at least two- 
thirds of the nations attending the conference are represented by one or more delegates. 

Art. 17. Except in cases expressly indicated in these regulations, resolutions or 
motions under consideration by the conference are approved when they have ob- 
tained the affirmative vote of an absolute majority of the delegations represented by 
one or more of its members at the meeting where the vote is taken. The delegation 
which may have sent its vote to the Secretary shall be considered as present and 
represented at the meeting. 

Art. 18. When, by reason of absence or abstention, the vote of the conference shall 
not attain the majority as required by the two foregoing articles, the matter shall be 
submitted for further consideration at a subsequent meeting, on motion of any delega- 
tion. But should such abstention continue at this meeting, the question shall then be 
decided by the majority of the delegations present. 

RIGHTS and duties OF MEMBERS. 

Art. 19. Delegates may speak in their own language, from manuscript or otherwise, 
and upon the termination of any speech either the delegate or one of the interpreters 
of the conference shall, upon request of any one delegation, at once render orally a 
synopsis of the principal points of the speech in the languages that such delegation 
may suggest. This shall also apply to the remarks of the president and of the secretary. 

Art. 20. No delegation may, through any of its members, speak more than twice 
on the same subject, nor shall any delegation occupy the floor for more than 30 minutes 
at a time. Any delegate, however, shall have the right to speak for no more than five 
minutes upon a question of order, or to answer any personal allusions, or to explain 
Ms vote, and the author of a motion may speak once more, not exceeding 30 minutes. 

Art. 21. Any delegate may submit to the conference his written opinion upon the 
matter or point in debate, and may request that it be spread upon the minutes of the 
meeting in which it has been submitted. 

Likewise, any delegation that may not be present at the time a vote is taken may 
write down its vote and leave it with or send it to the secretary and at the time of 
canvassing the votes such votes shall be reckoned as if the delegation were present. 

Art. 22. Attendance at the deliberations of the conference shall be confined to the 
following: The delegates with their respective secretaries and attaches; the director or 
other accredited representative of the International Bureau of the American Republics 
and his secretary; the secretaries of the sessions; the interpreters and stenographers 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 35 

of the conference; such representatives of the press as are properly accredited and are 
approved by the committee on organization, and the authorized attendants; provided, 
however, that the conference may, by a majority vote, extend the courtesies of the 
conference to such persons as it may at any time designate. 

Whenever any delegation may request that a meeting go into executive or secret 
session, the motion shall immediately be put and voted upon without discussion. 
If the motion be carried the representatives of the press will at once withdraw, and all 
persons present will be enjoined to absolute secrecy as regards the business transacted 
at the meeting. 

At the close of each session, proper communication of the proceedings shall be made 
to the press, when desirable, by the secretary general, who will act in this duty under 
the general guidance of the committee on publications. 

RESOLUTIONS AND REPORTS THEREON. 

Art. 23. The reports of the committees and the resolutions to which they refer 
shall be printed in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French, and shall be distributed 
at the next following meeting to the delegates for their consideration, but shall not be 
submitted for discussion until the next meeting after they were distributed in print, 
at least in Spanish and English. 

AMENDMENTS TO THE PROGRAM. 

Art. 24. The deliberations of the conference shall be confined to such subjects as 
are contained in the program, except when by a vote of two-thirds of the delegations 
the conference decides to take into consideration a new matter submitted by one 
delegation and seconded by another. 

A motion to take into consideration a new subject shall be decided without debate. 

NUMBER OF MEETINGS. 

Art. 25. The number of the meetings of the conference shall not exceed 30. This 
limit, however, may be extended in case of a matter of vital importance and by the 
vote of two-thirds of the delegations present at the conference. 

The closing meeting shall take place as soon as all the subjects in the program 
may have been discussed ; but in any case it shall take place on the 1st of September 
at latest. 

printing op the minutes. 

Art. 26. The minutes approved by the conference shall be signed by the president 
and the secretary general. They shall be printed in Spanish, English, Portuguese, 
and French, in pages of two columns, and a sufficient number of copies shall be 
issued so that each delegate may receive four copies. The original minutes shall be 
preserved in the archives of the International Bureau of the American Republics at 
least in Spanish and English. 

SIGNATURE OF THE FINAL MINUTES. 

Art. 27. The day before the closing of the conference shall be devoted to the dis- 
cussion and approval of the minutes written and printed in Spanish, English, Portu- 
guese, and French, containing the resolutions or recommendations discussed and 
approved by the conference. The original records shall be signed by the delegations, 
and the Government of the Argentine Republic will send within 90 days after the 
actual adjournment of the conference a certified copy of such records to each of the 
Governments represented at the conference and to the International Bureau of the 
American Republics. 

AMENDMENTS TO THE REGULATIONS. 

Art. 28. The foregoing rules shall be transmitted to the respective Governments 
immediately after their adoption by the governing board of the International Bureau 
of the American Republics, and they shall govern the action of the conference unless 
and until altered, amended, or repealed by the conference itself by a two-thirds vote. 
Motions for this purpose shall be submitted without debate. 

Adopted by the committee on regulations Monday, May 9, and by the governing 
board of the International Bureau of the American Republics at the meeting of May 
13, 1910. 

P. C. Knox, Chairman ex Officio. 

Francisco J. Yanes, Secretary. 



APPENDIX B, 



INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DELEGATES OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA TO THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMER- 
ICAN STATES. 

Sirs: The President said in his last annual message to the Congress: 

"On the 9th of July next there will open at Buenos Aires the Fourth Pan-American 
Conference. This conference will have a special meaning to the hearts of all Ameri- 
cans, because around its date are clustered the anniversaries of the independence 
of 80 many of the American Republics. It is not necessary for me to remind the 
Congress of the political, social, and commercial importance of these gatherings. 
* * * It is my purpose to appoint a distinguished and representative delegation, 
qualified fittingly to represent this country and to deal with the problems of inter- 
continental interest which will there be discussed." 

Among the foreign relations of the United States as they fall into categories, the 
Pan-American policy takes first place in our diplomacy. In quoting what the Presi- 
■dent has said, I can not too strongly impress upon you your Government's apprecia- 
tion of the importance of the occasion or its sense of the responsibility of the service 
which you have undertaken in accepting appointment to represent this American 
Government and people at a great gathering of the countries of half a world. 

I desired you to report at the department at this time in order that you might have 
two weeks for study and consultation with the officials of the department in prepara- 
tion for your work at the conference. That work will, of course, be confined to the 
program and to such relevant matters as may properly come up, under the rules of 
the conference, for discussion, and has nothing to do with other subjects of diplo- 
matic discussion, which are in the exclusive charge of the diplomatic ser\dce. Never- 
theless, there is hardly a phase of the conference more important than its opportunity 
for the representatives of one Republic to come into intellectual and sympathetic 
contact with those of the others. 

_ Through such contact of men typical of the best feeling and thought of all the Repub- 
lics, the American peoples gradually grow to know one another, and by this sure 
process of mutual understanding and appreciation are built solid international friend- 
ships founded in justice, respect, good will, and tolerance. Hence, it is of para- 
mount importance that this delegation truly reflect the sentiments and ideas of the 
■Government of the United States in its Pan-American diplomacy. I therefore desire 
you, while at the department, to give your studious attention not only to your actual 
prospective work at the conference, but also to the task of becoming imbued with the 
spirit which animates the American policy of the United States, so that the tone of 
your whole attitude and action shall be in harmony with that policy. 

To this end the delegation should, so far as possible, have some general understand- 
ing of the conditions in each country and some appreciation of the signal achieve- 
ments of each nation in ideals, in government, in science, and in material 
advancement. 

The American peoples differ in race and language, and in literary and aesthetic 
inheritances. They have a common ground in their republican form of government, 
their love of liberty, in the acquisition of their independence and the history of 
their progress, and in their emerging through civil strife and their peopling and 
developing of huge and wild lands into orderly modern States. They are bound 
together also by a community of interest, and by the ties of mutual helpfulness, 
both moral and material, and of a common destiny. 

For reasons indicated above I shall embody in these instructions, merely as suggest- 
ive, some comment upon recent American relations. But first I shall undertake 
some discussion of the program of the conference. 

The Third International American Conference, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, 
adopted the following resolution: 

"The governing board of the International Bureau of American Republics is author- 
ized to designate the place at which the Fourth International Conference shall meet, 
which meeting shall be within the next five years; to provide for the drafting of the 
program and regulations, and to take into consideration all other necessary details." 

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The governing board of the Bureau of American Republics, exercising the authority 
thus conferred upon it, fixed Buenos Aires as the place, and July 9, 1910, as the date 
of the conference, and adopted a program of subjects for consideration. The respec- 
tive Governments, by indicating their intention to take part and by naming delegates, 
approved this action of their diplomatic representatives in Washington. It is unlikely 
that the conference will undertake to enlarge the program, since it was framed after 
most careful consideration, and the subjects omitted include such as in the judgment 
of the members of the governing board would tend to excite useless controversy, thus 
endangering the success of the present conference and militating against that of future 
ones. 

For example, the governing board did not appear to think it advisable that discus- 
sion should be renewed as to whether a voluntary conference for general purposes 
ought to assert competence to impose upon any State the arbitral settlement of one or 
another particular dispute of long standing, such as there still exist, happily, only very 
few among the American Republics. Such arbitrations are the logical result of the 
occasional failure of direct negotiations, but The Hague conventions and the various 
bilateral arbitration treaties seem to express the most advanced position yet taken by 
the nations in cases where they do not spontaneously resort to arbitration simply as 
the sensible and enlightened alternative to force. Hence, evidently, the governing 
board's omission of arbitration from the program. Should occasion arise you would 
oppose propositions looking to the assertion of such competence on the part of the I' 
conference. i 

The same considerations apply to any formal demand by the conference for con- 
ventions of general compulsory arbitration, or even any declarations as to the proper 
methods of enforcing acceptance of boundary awards, since these might at this junc- 
ture be regarded by some States as efforts to put them at an unfair disadvantage in 
the adjustment of pending disputes. 

In your informal conversations with the delegates from other countries you will 
maintain such an attitude as will give rise to no suspicion of partiality or of a desire 
to use the present conference to affect concrete cases. 

As is well known, this Government now as always earnestly advocates the general 
principle of pacific settlement of international disputes, and it believes that this is 
also the policy of all the countries participating in this conference, but this conference 
would not seem an opportune occasion for offering or entertaining definite propositions 
on the subject. 

This Government's general views as to the proper purposes of Pan-American con- 
ferences remain as set forth in the instructions to the United States delegates to the 
third conference, wherein they were thus expressed: 

"The true function of such a conference is to deal with matters of common interest 
which are not really subjects of controversy, but upon which comparison of views 
and friendly discussion may smooth away differences of detail, develop substantial 
agreement, and lead to cooperation along common lines for the attainment of objects 
which all really desire." 

I. The organization of the conference. 

This is the first subject on the program for the conference's consideration. The 
delegation of the United States should avoid being placed in a position of undue 
prominence in the selection of officers and committees. The system adopted by the 
third conference of having the more important committees composed of one repre- 
sentative from each Republic gave good results, facilitated the prompt dispatch of 
business, and avoided discussion of controversial matters in the plenary sessions. 
You will advocate its continuance, and in general the adoption of the rules that reg- 
ulated the Rio de Janeiro conference, as recommended with slight modifications by 
the governing board. There appears little doubt that these regulations, like the 
program, will be adopted, and as a practical method you should now anticipate this 
action and proceed to subdivide the probable work, each delegate specializing to 
some extent in order to qualify himself for useful service as a member of one or another 
committee. 

II. Commemoration of the Argentine national centenary and of the independence of the 
American Republics as suggested by the fact that many of those nations celebrate their 
national centenaries in 1910 and neighboring years. 

This Government takes the most lively interest in the appropriate commemoration 
of the Argentine national centenary and of the independence of the other American 
Republics whose national centenaries occur in 1910 and the following years. The 
suggestions and plans of the Republics primarily interested should receive most sym- 
pathetic support and you will cooperate with your colleagues from those countries in 
the measures that may be proposed by them. 



38 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

III. Submission and consideration of the reports of each delegation as to the action of 
their respective Governments upon the resolutions and conventions of the third confer- 
ence held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906, including a report upon the results accom- 
plished by the Pan American committees and the consideration of the extension of their 
functions. 

The Governments of many of the countries participating in the conference have 
failed to ratify the four conventions recommended by the Rio conference. It is also 
possible that some ratifications have been made which have not been communicated 
or exchanged. You will endeavor discreetly to ascertain from your colleagues whether 
these failures to ratify have been due to real objections to the form or substances of the 
conventions, or only to difhculties and delays in procuring legislative approval. This 
information should be procured promptly on your arrival and it may afford you a basis 
for urging and aiding the securing, through the various members of the conference, 
of action by the Governments that have not yet ratified them. 

You will also advocate the adoption of a system of deposit of ratifications which will 
tend to facilitate their prompt exchange and enable the conventions to be proclaimed 
as well as a mode of adherence in case of nonsignatory governments. 

Several countries have not yet named the Pan-American committees recommended 
by the Rio conference. You will urge your colleagues to use their influence with then- 
respective Governments to establish such committees and advocate the enlargement of 
the functions of the Pan American committees to include cooperation with their Gov- 
ernments in the preparation of any reports called for by the Pan American Confer- 
ences and in the preparation of plans for future conferences, such as schemes for 
greater uniformity in census and other statistical schedules, for the more ready com- 
parison of educational, industrial, financial, economic, and social conditions. 

IV. Submission and consideration of the report of the Director of the International Bureau 
of the American Republics, together with consideration of the present organization and of 
recom,mendations for the possible extension and iviprovevient of its efficiency. 

Not a few of the resolutions of the last conference failed of any important results 
because of the paucity of the ratifications, because of the failure of the various Pan 
American committees to contribute information, because of the inability of the Pan 
American bureau to complete some huge task of collecting information, or from other 
cause. 

With reference to this item on the program you should study the origin and status 
of the International Union of American Republics and the bureau which is its office. 
The institution has grown in a somewhat haphazard manner and it now seems high 
time that its organization, status, and working should be clearly determined by con- 
vention between the Governments which are its component parts. Its permanency 
should thus be provided for and among various matters to be elucidated and brought 
in conformity with the growth of the institution is the need of a system of auditing 
of accounts on behalf of the Governments constituting the union. 

It is understood that the representative of the bureau will report to the conference 
upon all these matters. 

The delegation of the United States will cooperate, though its member of the ap- 
propriate committee, in the preparation of a satisfactory convention and will favor 
its adoption by the conference. 

V. Resolution expressing appreciation to Mr. Andrew Carnegie of his generous gift for 

the construction of the new building of the American Republics in Washington. 

The drafting of a resolution expressing to Mr. Andrew Carnegie appreciation of his 
generous gift for the construction of the new building of the American Republics in 
Washington will presumably be intrusted to the representatives of some of the Latin- 
American Republics. 

VI. Report on the progress which has been made on the Pan American Railivay since the 
Rio conference, and consideration of the possibility of cooperative action among the 
American Republics to secure the completion of the sy.siem. 

Very considerable progress has been made since the last conference in the projection, 
survey, and construction of railroads which will ultimately form part of the Pan Amer- 
ican Railway. The rapid economic progress of many of "the regions traversed, an in- 
creasing realization of the importance of neighborly commercial relations, and the 
recently aroused interest among the capitalists of this country in the opportunities 
for investment offered in Latin America are all factors which make the present a par- 
ticularly appropriate time for the conference to add a further \'igorous impulse toward 
the ultimate realization of the project. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 39 

VII. Consideration of the conditions under which the establishment of more rapid mail, 
passenger, and express steamship service between the American Republics can be 
secured. 

The improvement of mail and steamship facilities between the American Republics, 
and especially between the United States and the Latin-American Republics, is of 
the gravest import as affecting our present and future commercial relations with those 
countries. You will manifest the interest this Government feels in the subject and 
discuss the proposals of your colleagues. Various projects of law have been proposed 
or are now pending before the United States Congress, but uncertainty as to what will 
be done in regard thereto renders it inadvisable at the present time for you to present 
any definite proposals to the consideration of the conference. 

VIII. Consideration of measures which ivill lead to uniformity among the American 
Republics in consular documents and the technical requirements of customs regulations, 
and also in census and commercial statistics. 

The task of assembling the vast amount of detailed information which would be 
requisite to an exhaustive comparison of all the regulations of the different 21 Repub- 
lics, which the Third Conference delegated to the International Bureau of American 
Republics, not unnaturally proved impossible. In the view of this Government it 
would be more practicable again to present generally the project elaborated in con- 
nection with the First Conference, and seek by such means to make progress toward 
the elimination of vexatious hindrances to trade. 

In order to bring about the greatest freedom of commercial intercourse between the 
American Republics, it would seem highly desirable to take steps to remove such 
objectionable consular and customs regulations as may be found to interfere with 
the efforts of the citizens of each Republic to carry on business relations with the 
citizens of the others. A brief examination shows that the regulations of the Ameri- 
can Republics are widely different in character and must lead to confusion on the 
part of exporters and importers who must comply with them. Some of the regulations 
are so unduly exacting that exporters from the United States have been known to 
abandon the trade with a particular country rather than undergo the annoyance and 
delay necessary to meet the consular and customs requirements. It would seem, 
therefore, that one of the most important reforms to which the Fourth Pan American 
■Conference could address itself would be the adoption of uniform regulations and 
fees for the ordinary consular and customs acts and documents. 

Nowhere is the lack of uniformity in the consular regulations of the American Re- 
publics better illustrated than in the fees prescribed for the consular certificates of 
invoices. It is recommended that each Republic be asked to join in a convention or 
in an agreement for executive action to fix a uniform fee of $2.50 gold for the certifi- 
cates of each invoice, including as many as four copies; provided, however, that for 
invoices the value of which does not exceed $100 the fee shall be 50 cents. This is 
in substantial accord with the agreement of the First Internationa] American Con- 
ference. 

Another object which might be accomplished to facilitate trade between the Re- 
publics would be an agreement by convention or otherwise upon a uniform invoice 
for all shipments from one Republic to another and a uniform method of consular 
certification. The recommendation of the First International American Conference, 
if adopted with slight modifications, would afford a very satisfactory solution of this 
question by causing to. be prescribed an invoice which should be made out in dupli- 
case, triplicate, or quadruplicate, in the language of the country of import and in the 
currency actually paid for the merchandise, which should also declare the contents 
and value of each package, state the quantities and values of the merchandise in 
figures and not in words, and be in other respects similar to the form now in use by 
the United States, which has been found to be highly satisfactory. 

In the interest of uniformity of statistics, as well as of the convenience of exporters, 
it would seem important that the consular certification of invoices should take place 
at the point where the merchandise is situated at the time of purchase, or, in other 
words, at the point from which it begins its journey to its ultimate destination; pro- 
vided, however, that where articles purchased in various places are forwarded to one 
point to be packed for shipment abroad the invoice may be certified by the consul at 
the place where such assembling and packing is done. 

It would also be desirable to have a uniform rule that if by reason of delay in the 
mails, or for other satisfactory causes, an invoice certified by a consul could not be 
produced, entry be allowed on a statement in the form of an invoice upon the execu- 
tion of a bond for the subsequent production of an invoice duly certified by the appro- 
priate consul. 



40 FOURTH INTERNATIONAXi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

There is a great, lack of uniformity among the regulations of the American Republics 
in respect to the certification of manifests of vessels and cargo, some Republics re- 
quiring certification and charging liberal fees therefor, and other Republics requiring 
no certification. For the convenience of exporters and masters of vessels, and with 
a view to the simplification of the regulations under which commerce may be carried 
on, it would seem desirable that uniform regulations and uniform fees be adopted in 
respect to manifests or that a regulation requiring no certification of manifests be 
agreed upon. The United States does not require consular certification of manifests. 

Inasmuch as nearly every country requires imported merchandise to be accom- 
panied by an invoice certified by a consul of that country stationed in the country of 
exportation of the merchandise, there would seem to be no strong reason for requir- 
ing consuls, in addition, to certify bills of lading covering such shipments; and an 
agreement to abolish the requirements for the consular certification of bills of lading, 
with the fees therefor, would seem to be another step that might properly be taken in 
the direction of removing obstacles in the way of perfect freedom of commercial inter- 
course. 

American merchants seeking to carry on business relations with some of the other 
American Republics have been put to much annoyance and expense by the enforce- 
ment of regulations imposing fines or penalties on account of technical and clerical 
errors in invoices. If an agreement could be reached, as recommended by the First 
International American Conference, to the effect that technical defects in the form 
of any document which has been duly authenticated before the consul of any of the 
countries should not in that country be deemed sufficient cause for the imposition of 
fines or penalties and that all other manifest clerical errors may be corrected after entry 
at the customhouse of the country without prejudice to the consignee or owner, com- 
mercial relations between the American Republics would be greatly facilitated. It 
is probable that this change could be made by executive action on the part of the 
several Republics. 

Hardly less important is the gathering and publishing of commercial statistics and 
making them, so far as possible, uniform. Present variances are so great, and com- 
mercial data are so interwoven with the varying tariff systems and trade customs of 
the 21 Republics, that progress must necessarily be slow. You will give carefiil 
attention to the memorandum on the subject prepared by Mr. Jacobson, expert of 
the Department of Commerce and Labor, and, so far as opportune, favor the taking of 
practical steps in the line of his recommendations. 

IX. Consideration of the recommendations of the Pan American sanitary congresses in 
regard to sanitary police and quarantine and of such additional recommendations as 
may tend to the elimination of preventable diseases. 

You will endeavor to procure from the conference a recommendation that the con- 
clusions of the Mexican and Costa Rican sanitary conferences be adopted by the 
respective countries. 

The recommendations on this subject contained in the instructions to the delegates 
to the third conference are reaffirmed for your guidance. 

The progress made in sewering and sanitation of the ports of the various Republics 
has been most admirable, and it may well be expected that in the not distant future 
the few remaining unsanitary ports will be likewise improved. The . difficulties 
appear to be mainly financial, the necessary expenditures in many cases exceeding 
current municipal reA-eniies. But it would seem to be an opportunity for foreign 
capital on a large scale to contribute to most excellent enterprises, and no doubt is 
felt that it can be interested. 

X. Consideration of a practicable arrangement between the American Republics covering 

patents, trade-marks, and copyrights. 

The advance in commercial morality of modern times is in no way better illustrated 
than in the feeling among all enlightened nations that the author and inventor should 
be protected in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, and the American Republics 
have frequently shown themselves fully alive to the duty of protecting, within their 
jurisdictions, rights in literary, artistic, and industrial property which have been, 
after due examination, established in other jurisdictions. 

The subject of the protection of patents, trade-marks, and copyrights was discussed 
at Montevideo, at Washington, at Mexico, and at Rio de Janeiro. The Third Pan 
American Conference adopted conventions which conserved in their entirety the con- 
ventions framed by the conference at the City of Mexico consolidating them into 
one convention and making certain other proAisions, such as that for the establishment 
of international bureaus at Havana and Rio de Janeiro. 



FOTJKTH INTEENATIONAX, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 41 

The Rio de Janeiro convention was signed by thp delegates of the United States, 
but its careful analysis by the Patent Office revealed such serious defects that it was 
deemed inadvisable that it should be even laid before the Senate with a view to 
ratification. 

In the first place, the engrafting of new provisions upon a combination of the two 
Mexican conventions made it unduly complicated. It imposed the obligation to 
recognize foreign patents even if such had been granted without any examination. 
It imposed an obligation, both useless and impossible, under which a government 
issuing a great number of patents would have had to send full data to the other signatory 
governments. It would have been in conflict with the most advanced systems, and 
notably would have been inconsistent with the Paris Convention of 1883, the merits 
of which have been recognized by previous Pan American conferences. 

It will be one of your important duties to seek the adoption of suitable conventions 
to regularize the mutual protection of these classes of property among the American 
Republics. Having in view the extreme technicality of these subjects, the President 
has appointed Mr. Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents, as expert attach^ to the 
delegation. Mr. Moore has prepared drafts of three conventions covering, respec- 
tively, patents, trade-marks, and copyrights, and their provisions appear to this 
Government admirably responsive to the needs of the situation. In your advocacy 
of the conventions you will be guided entirely by the advice of the Commissioner of 
Patents, and in their discussion you should point out that they are entirely in harmony 
with the International Convention adopted at Paris in 1883, emphasizing the fact 
that their adoption will greatly improve the position of the Republics concerned in the 
discussions at the meeting of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial 
Property, which is to be held in Washington in May, 1911, and to which all the Ameri- 
can Republics have been invited. 

XI. Consideration of the continuance of the treaties on pecuniary claims after their 

expiration. 

Inasmuch as The Hague general arbitration treaties which were adhered to by most 
American Republics in 1907 do not satisfactorily cover the subject, you will for your 
part urge the continuance of the treaties on pecuniary claims after their expiration, 
and, if any of the other countries of the conference should have special reasons for 
desiring to discontinue the Rio treaties you will seek to ascertain the reason for such 
action. This Government hopes that those countries which have thus far failed to 
ratify them may conclude to do so. 

XII. Consideration of a plan to promote the interchange of prof essors and students among 

the universities and academies of the American Republics. 

An interchange of professors and students among the universities and academies 
of the American Republics will undoubtedly promote mutual intellectual and social 
understanding and sympathy, and you will give your hearty support to any practical 
plan tending to this end which may be devised. 

XIII. Resolution in appreciation of the Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in San- 

tiago, Chile, December, 1908. 

You may support a resolution expressing appreciation of the valuable labors of the 
Pan-American Scientific Congress of Santiago. The delegates to that congress were 
active and efficient and it would seem appropriate that they should receive a justly 
deserved recognition at the hands of this conference. 

XIV. Resolution instructing the governing hoard of the International Bureau of the 
American Republics to consider and recommend the manner in which the American 
Republics may see fit to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. 

It seems very fitting that some such resolution should be passed whereby the govern- 
ing board would recommend the manner in which the other American Republics 
might join with the United States by participation in the celebration of the opening 
of the Panama Canal. 

The great benefits of easier intercourse and more convenient commerce the canal 
is expected to bestow upon all the Republics will doubtless engender great interest 
in such celebration. 

XV. Future conferences. 

Strong reasons have been advanced against holding the Pan-American conferences 
at short intervals. Fear has been expressed that the failure of important tangible 
results in the form of actual conventions ratified and put into operation might create 



42 FOURTH INTERN ATIONALi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

an impression of futility. Bearing in mind the extreme difficulty of agreement by 
21 Republics, and feeling also that these conferences have a meaning and a moral 
effect outweighing their material results, the Government of the United States can 
hardly share this fear. However, the distances are great and the delegates have to 
be chosen from the ranks of busy men, and altogether I am persuaded that intervals 
of six years as a minimum would probably afford an appropriate frequency, unless, 
in this particular case, it should be deemed expedient that the next conference should 
synchronize with the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. 

After a year during which the relations of a number of the Republics have been at 
times under considerable strain, so many differences seem now either settled or well 
on the way toward settlement that one maj^ perhaps say without unjustifiable opti- 
mism that the time appears especially auspicious for the success of the Fourth Pan- 
American Conference. 

So far as the United States is concerned, I am very happy to assure you of the con- 
viction of this Government that its relations with the Republics of Latin America are 
upon a firmer foundation, perhaps, than ever before. This gratifying situation no 
doubt arises, to a great degree, from the fact that the very troubles of the past year have 
afforded opportunities for cooperation and for the expression, in action, of mutual 
confidence. 

When the relations of Peru and Bolivia were strained by the acrimony engendered 
by their boundary dispute, which had been submitted to the arbitration of the Gov- 
ernment of the Argentine Republic, the United States, while adhering to the policy 
of abstention from any undue mingling in the affairs of other countrie^'J had the 
opportunity to voice its confidence that the Governments immediately concerned , 
if left to themselves, would reach a solution satisfactory to the dignity and interests 
of each, and in a manner to do no injury to the great principle of arbitration. This 
belief was justified by events and later, through the action of the governing board of 
the Pan-American Union, the way was also smoothed in a manner whereby the Boliv- 
ian Government is to be represented at the conference. This action of the governing 
board has an importance in that it laid down a principle, in which this Government 
firmly believes, namely, that membership in the Pan-American Union entitles each 
Government to participate in the conferences irrespective of the existence of diplo- 
matic relations between it and the Government in whose capital the conference may 
be held — a principle which the Government of the Argentine Republic was the first 
to espouse. 

In response to the request of Costa Rica and of Panama, the good offices of the 
United States were extended to bring together the respective representatives who 
signed a convention under which the ancient boundary dispute between the two 
countries is to be referred to arbitration. 

Quite recently, when the armies of Peru and Ecuador had been mobilized and were 
reported to be in sight of each other, the Governments of the Argentine Republic and 
of the United States of Brazil joined this Government in offering their mediation, 
under The Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907 and in the name of Pan- Americanism, 
and it is sincerely hoped that this action will prove to have averted a war. The 
promptness and cordial unanimity of this tripartite movement for peace happily illus- 
trates the harmony and good will of the Governments concerned. Indeed, scarcely 
less important than the beneficent results which it is hoped has been accomplished 
is the fine example of these great powers working together for a high purpose — an 
example further signalized by the fact that the Government of Chile promptly came 
forward with the assurance of its valuable support, which is a powerful influence and 
an important contribution to the probable success of the efforts of the Governments 
which directly offered their mediation. This joint action is interesting also as giving 
to the American Republics the honor of first making actual avail of these most impor- 
tant provisions of The Hague conventions. 

Among the achievements in which this Government had not the honor of a part 
may be mentioned the following: There has recently been adjusted a boundary 
c[uestion between Peru and Brazil, and conventions have been signed between Argen- 
tina and Uruguay and between Brazil and Uruguay, with a happy effect Tipon the 
question of navigation in. tlie..River Plate, and, in the second case, upon a question of 
access to the sea from northern Uruguay tlirough Brazilian waterways. 

The geographical proximity of Central America, the frequency of trouble in the less 
fortunate of those Republics, and the relation to them of the United States as a moral 
party to the Washington conventions of 1907 have resulted in this Government's being, 
for a number of years, frequently called upon to exert its influence among those 
Republics. The present year has been no exception. As you are aware, there are 
now no diplomatic relations between the. United States and Nicaragua for the reason 
that this Government has not yet seen its way clear to recognize any Government as 



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in the possession and exercise of the governmental machinery of the whole country 
with the consent of the governed, as able and willing to discharge its international 
obligations, as capable of responding to a demand for indemnity for the murder of 
American citizens last winter, as determined to bend every effort to bring those guilty 
to justice wherever they may be, and as prepared to strengthen, for its pai't, and to 
abide by the Washington conventions. 

The policy of the United States toward Nicaragua was fully set forth in a letter 
addressed to the then charge d'affaires of the Government of Zelaya, who was handed 
his passports December 1, 1909. Although the situation in Nicaragua remains a 
regrettable one, that policy has already had the effect, at least, of freeing Nicaragua 
from a dictator who was the scourge of his own people and who disdained and trampled 
upon the rights and interests of all foreigners. 

In being compelled to take somewhat drastic action towai'd such a Government the 
United States well knew that its action would not be misconstrued by the progressive 
American Republics with stable Governments and high ideals, for such Governments 
know that to ask justice for our citizens and to refuse to tolerate and deal with mediaeval 
despots is only to be true to the civilization and institutions which they share. If 
this were not true, then Pan- Americanism would be a sham instead of a community 
of free and equal Governments, each worthy and demanding the respect of the others. 
I am, sirs, your obedient servant, 

P. C. Knox. 

Hon. Henry White, Chairman, 

Col. E. H. Crowder, 

Lewis Nixon, Esq., 

Hon. John Bassett Moore, 

Hon. Bernard Moses, 

Lamar C. Quintero, Esq., 

Prof. Paul S. Reinsch, 

Prof. David Kinley, 

Delegates of the United States of America to the 

Fourth International Conference of American States. 



APPENDIX C. 



ADDRESS OF DR. VICTORINO DE LA PLAZA AT THE OPENING 
SESSION, JULY 12, 1910. 

Gentlemen : Let my first words be those of sincere acknowledgment to your sev- 
eral countries and governments, in the name of the people and of the Government of 
Argentina, for the courtesy with which they have entered into the common desire by 
BO promptly sending their delegates to the place of meeting previously designated. 
At the same time let them be words of welcome to you all. 

You have arrived at an opportune moment, when Argentina, in the midst of gen- 
eral rejoicing on the occasion of her historic centenary, waited to hail your presence 
with the profound satisfaction with which she beholds you in this capital, so gen- 
erously selected by the Third Conference, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, for the 
meeting of this, the Fourth Conference, an act of deference to this country suggested 
by the commemoration of an event of great significance in the history of America, 
and the forerunner of an epoch of emancipation and liberty. 

These feelings are mutual because they coincide with the same aspirations, with 
the same ideals, that have constituted the permanent and uniform basis of democratic, 
representative, republican government in the whole of America from its northern 
boundaries to its most southern extreme ; and it is the common desire of all and of each 
of its several divisions that in them all there shall shine the light of civilization and 
liberty, and shall prevail sentiments of equality and justice, conducive to the well- 
being of their inhabitants. 

You inaugurate, therefore, gentlemen, your sessions and your labors under favor- 
able auspices, all the more favorable to your deliberations if you take into account 
that there is not, in the entire program formulated for this conference by the Inter- 
national Bureau at Washington, any question or problem whatever that turns upon 
interests or tendencies involving conflicts between the nations of any portion of either 
continent; and to this the consideration is to be added that, in view of the spirit of 
moderation and harmony now prevailing, there will not be the remotest occasion for 
any misunderstanding. 

Gradually we are coming to realize the positive advantages of these congresses, 
which represent the coming together of all the individual States of both Americas, 
to deliberate upon those subjects which, from their nature and their bearing upon 
the interest of each nation, are of common concern. 

Step by step, by progressive stages, we go forward without touching or diminishing 
in any degree, by the manifest solidarity of our acts and agreements, the autonomy 
and liberty of the participating States, because the foundation stone of these assem- 
blies is the maintenance of the sovereignty and independence of each nation. 

It is true that in not a few instances the deliberations and conventions approved by 
the conferences have not received on the part of the several States approbation, 
sanction, or execution, but these failures or delays are the contingencies to which 
this class of agreements is subject and they only serve to confirm in fact that which I 
have already said with reference to the inviolability of the sovereignty of the several 
States. 

I must here render due justice to the memory of the illustrious and renowned 
statesman, Mr. James G. Blaine, for having carried into effect in 1890, in his official 
capacity as Secretary of State for the Government at Washington, the first and memo- 
rable conference held in that city, and I cherish the conviction that as time goes on 
and the republics of America become more and more aware of the reciprocal benefits 
to be derived from these periodical assemblies, they will hold in ever higher appre- 
ciation the wisdom and foresight of that initiative. 

In this Fourth Conference you are to devote your attention to the consideration 
of a widely varied program of subjects, which, though perhaps on the whole not 
very numerous or complex, are, nevertheless, in their fundamental character, of 
practical importance, and you will do this ^vith the aim of facilitating and rendering 
uniform, in so far as this may be compatible with the interests of each nation, the 

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formulas, means, and procedure to be observed in the dispatch and administration 
of important matters, in order to avoid expensive and unnecessary proceedings and 
delays. Under this aspect may be considered the subjects in No. VII, "Considera- 
tion of the conditions under which the establishment of more rapid mail, passenger, 
and express steamship service between the American Republics can be secured;" 
VIII, "Consideration of measures which will lead to uniformity among the American 
Republics in consular document and the technical requirements of customs regula- 
tions, and also in census and commercial statistics;" IX, "Considefation of the recom- 
mendations of the Pan American Sanitary Congresses in regard to sanitary police and 
quarantine and of such additional recommendations as may tend to the elimination 
of preventable diseases, " all of which, as will be understood, are of manifest utility. 
Such will also be the character of the subject contained in No. X, with reference to 
"patents, trade-marks, and intellectual and literary property," if there can be found 
adequate means to harmonize the various principles and methods which predominate 
in these mattei'S among the several States. 

It can not be doubted that Subject VI, "Report on the progress which has been 
made on the Pan American Railway since the Rio Conference, and consideration of 
the possibility of cooperative action among the American Republics to secure the 
completion of the system," is of the utmost importance among the subjects to be 
considered, since that railway would be the basis of mutual understanding, union, 
and commerce between the nations of both continents and the bond which would 
unite them all in the development of theii- industries and progress. This problem, 
as is well known, has passed beyond the region of improbability into that of feasibility, 
and there would appear to be good reason to hope that the conviction of its reciprocal 
advantages will convert it into a happy reality. 

But I ought not to indulge in these detailed observations upon that which, in its 
entirety, ■will constitute your program, and I therefore return to the general subject. 

It is a fact that both the initiation and the actual meeting of the Fii-st Congi-ess were 
looked upon with misgivings by the European nations in the supposition that it was 
proposed to stii* up local interests or sentiments tending to create certain barriers to 
the commercial and political relations of the two hemispheres; and it was believed 
that there was visible among its designs a coalescence with the Americanist tenden- 
cies of the Monroe doctrine. Nor were there lacking those who suspected that it was 
proposed to introduce a department in international law creating special principles 
for the peoples of America. 

Events and the upright procedure pursued in the successive conferences have, 
nevertheless, completely demonstrated the falsity of such imputations, and to-day, 
with due justice to the conduct of the American Republics, recognition is given to 
the great utility and positive advantages of these congi-esses, which, aside from the 
opportunity they afford for the elucidation of those matters of common interest which 
constitute the basis of their program, draw closer the bonds of union and friendship 
between nations, some of which are held together by their common origin and tradi- 
tions, while all of them are moved by aspii-ations toward the common ideal of liberty, 
civilization, and progi-ess. 

It would seem unnecessary to repeat, in this connection, what has already been 
said, namely, that the success of the congi-ess depends upon the conduct, compe- 
tency, and diligence of its members, since the eminent position, preparation, and 
culture of them all give the highest and most complete assurance of the wisdom of 
their deliberations. 

Permit me now to recall certain antecedents related to the world-wide economic 
importance of the countries summoned to take part in this conference. 

The eminent Secretary of State, Mr. Blaine, to whom I have already referred, at 
the opening of the first congress, set forth the principal data with reference to the 
nations assembled for deliberation in the follovring terms : 

"Their total area," he said, "amounts to, with but little difference, 12,000,000 of 
square miles, which is more than three times the entire area of Europe and only 
slightly less than the fourth part of the land surface of the globe. As to their pro- 
ductive efficiency, whether of articles indispensable to human life or of those meeting 
the demands of luxury, the level which corresponds to these countries is also very 
high, since the one and the other are furnished to them by nature in a larger pro- 
portion than elsewhere in the same world. These vast territories contain at this time 
approximately one hundred and twenty millions of inhabitants; and if populated in 
the same ratio or with the same degree of density as Em-opean countries their popu- 
lation would without difficulty exceed one thousand millions." 

Now, gentlemen, the most recent data shown by statistics demonstrate that these 
figures have changed greatly to the advantage of the peoples of America, displaying 
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46 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

tendency to development in a proportion not only never exceeded, but never equaled 
up to the present time by any other nations of the world. 

First of all, the number of states has been increased by the two new Republics of 
Cuba and Panama; their area has grown by the addition of that of Cuba, and their 
population represents at the present time a total of 160,000,000 inhabitants. As 
concerns their economic efficiency the fact is that the sum total of their exports, 
which constitute an exponent of the productive power of nations, amounts to about 
three thousand millions of dollars, while the grand total of their commerce, including 
exports and imports, shows the sum of about six thousand millions of dollars, of which 
a little more than one-half belongs tp the United States of America and the remainder 
to all the other Republics together. 

The statistical results just given, compared with the corresponding data concerning 
European states, including with them China, Japan, Russia, and Asiatic Turkey, as 
well as Canada, considered as British territory, give us a percentage for the American 
Republics of $18.90 gold exports per inhabitant, compared with $10.13 gold for the 
other States to which I refer, and of $33 gold per inhabitant in the general commerce 
of exports and imports, as compared with $22.20 gold for the other states. 

The data thus given show forth the rapid development which is taking place in 
the productive power of the peoples of America, who are going forward at this time, 
inspired happily by the most effective means of devoting themselves to the honest 
development of their industries and wealth, which are the basis of their prosperity. 

Fortunately all those frequent political conflicts which gave rise to such unfavor- 
able opinions concerning the capacity of the republics of Latin origin for self-govern- 
ment and well-ordered administration are passing away, and the very nations which 
formerly entertained so doubtful an opinion are now turning their eyes toward these 
new centers of production and wealth, whence there come so many and such varied 
resources for the maintenance of the industrial activity of the great manufacturing 
centers of the world, contributing to the cheapening and abundance of the means of 
subsistence. 

You will therefore, gentlemen, devote yourselves to the tasks committed to you 
with the conviction of the importance which our countries hold in the world's com- 
merce and with the aim to confirm by friendly association the antecedent conditions 
of harmony amongst all the peoples of both the American continents to draw them 
more closely together in their cooperation for mutual progress and happiness by 
extending to each other reciprocal advantages and mutual aid. 

Far from being the rivals of any other nation or portion whatever of the world, we 
may congratulate ourselves upon the fact that all our states have embedded in their 
constitutions the loftiest principles of civilization and of liberality toward all other 
nations and toward all well-intentioned men who may desire to reside in their terri- 
tories for the purpose of labor and subsistence under the protection guaranteed by 
their free institutions. 

It is pleasant, moreover, to call to mind on this occasion the new direction given to 
world-wide politics by the incorporation into the world's concert and councils at the 
last Hague Conference, on terms of equality with the great nations, the greater part 
of the American States of Latin origin, even those of least extent and population. 

It had come to be the inveterate custom of the powers to deliberate among them- 
selves on the destinies of incipient and weak nations, as if dealing with States or 
sovereignties possessing neither voice nor weight in the control and development of 
the rules, principles, and declarations inherent in human societies, recognized as 
indei)endent and sovereign in their international relations. 

This condition of precarious autonomy and liberty of action, and the constant 
danger of being subjugated or suffering the mutilation of their territory, would have 
continued among these weak States but for the wise and famous declarations of 
President Monroe, to which we ought to render due homage; and but for the constant 
action of other continental powers of somewhat greater strength in the defense of their 
territories and sovereignties as well as their declared intention to cooperate for the pro- 
tection of those States which were endowed with less strength and fewer means of 
self-defense. 

Nevertheless, although such declarations and precautions have been in practice 
efficacious for the maintenance of the integrity of those international entities, they 
could not have a like influence in establishing their importance or the share they ought 
to have in the councils of the nations, or in the development of the rules and prin- 
ciples and rights to which the nations, whether weak or strong, should be amenable 
and by which they would be protected in their reciprocal relations and in their inter- 
national conduct, in peace as well as in war, and in all those cases to which the law of 
nations is applicable. 

The continuance of such a state of things, though it might not be said to be due 
entirely to the abuse of power, was due, undoubtedly, to an abusive neglect, which 



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was neither right nor proper as a matter of reason or of law, and which therefore could 
not be perpetuated without a violation of justice. 

It is true that the invitation to take part in the Hague Conference did not result 
from the spontaneous action of the powers, but from the initiative and insistence of 
the Government of the United States and of those of certain other important Republics 
of America, to whom is due the expression of sincere gratitude; but it is not therefore 
to be held as a fact less propitious or of less historical significance that the small States, 
up to that time held to be disqualified by their inferiority were thus admitted with 
the rank of sovereign States to take part in the elucidation and sanction of principles 
and resolutions which have been incorporated into public and private international 
law, and to which each State must hereafter adjust its rules and the conduct of its 
administration. 

This sanction and recognition of the rights of the weak not only coincides with the 
principles of sound reason and justice, as has been said, but it also raises the dignity 
of our nations, impels them to progress and places them in the pathway of moral and 
material improvement wherein they will contribute by their labor to the productions, 
the commerce and the prosperity of all . 

It is my privilege to state that it is undoubtedly the occasion of genuine satisfaction 
to see the increased number of delegates present in this congress, exceeding that of 
former congresses, and I can say with entire confidence that, if not all the Republics 
are represented, this is due to causes entirely foreign to the desire and action of the 
Argentine Government, which has, on its part, made every effort to secure their 
participation. 

Upon your action and your wisdom depend, gentlemen, from this time the success 
which we must all hope for from the labors of this conference, which are safely intrusted 
to the care of such distinguished representatives. 

Honorable delegates, in the name of His Excellency the President of the Republic, 
I now declare your sessions open. 



ADDRESS OF HON. HENRY WHITE, PRESIDENT OF THE DELEGATION 
FROM THE UNITED STATES. 

Your Excellency: Permit me to assure you of my high appreciation of the honor 
which has been conferred upon me, as chairman of the delegation of the United States 
of America, of responding to and thanking you for the eloquent oration with which 
you have welcomed to this magnificent capital the delegates of the Fourth Interna- 
tional Conference of American States and declared our sessions to have begun. 

It is deeply gratifying to be able to feel that the words of amity and fraternity to 
which you have given such appropriate and graceful utterance are to be received as 
an expression and faithful reflection of the spirit of harmony in which we have assem- 
bled and in which our deliberations will be conducted. 

We certainly are meeting this time in the midst of the commemorations of historic 
events the recollection of which must bring a thrill of pride to every American heart, 
and in respect to which the President of the United States, in his last annual message 
to Congress said: "This conference will have a special meaning to the hearts of all 
Americans, because around its date are clustered the anniversaries of the independence 
of so many of the American Republics." 

In the presence of those great transactions fraught with developments the beneficent 
effects of which become more and more apparent with the lapse of years, we are 
neither North Americans nor Central Americans nor South Americans — we are simply, 
one and all, Americans. From a common condition of colonial dependence we have 
all of us alike passed through the trying ordeal of a struggle for national existence; we 
have known the sacrifices incident to such a contest, and the uncertainties that 
attend and succeed it, and we have all alike rejoiced, as we do to-day, in the achieve- 
ment of an assured and vigorous national independence. 

Scarcely, however, had the movement for independence in Latin America reached 
a successful conclusion, when the permanency of the triumph seemed to be put in 
jeopardy by the concert of antagonistic and reactionary forces in other lands. It was 
then that President Monroe, animated with the spirit of American solidarity, and 
giving expression to the common interest and common ideals and aspirations of the 
American people, made to the world the celebrated declaration since known as the 
Monroe Doctrine, to which your excellency has so happily adverted. This doctrine, 
conceived in the broadest spirit of American brotherhood, was designed by its author 
to be, as it has since become, a general charter of liberty and independence to all the 
American nations, and in this sense it called forth an immediate and enthusiastic 
response, for not only did it lay down the principle that the extension of European 



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governmental and colonial systems to the American continent would not in future be 
permitted, but it also proclaimed in no uncertain terms that the American nations 
would henceforth be masters of their own destiny. 

It is very gratifying to the delegation of the United States to hear the touching 
tribute which your excellency has paid, and for which I beg leave to express our 
sincere appreciation and thanks to our great countryman, the late Mr. Blaine, for his 
part in bringing about the meeting of the First International American Conference. 
Those of us who knew Mr. Blaine well remember how deep and constant was his inter- 
est in the proceedings of that conference, and with what zest he labored for its success, 
and although various projects and resolutions in which it resulted may not have been 
eventually incorporated in formal treaties, yet its results and those of the two confer- 
ences which have succeeded it mark as a whole a great advance in American inter- 
national relations and in the relations of America with the rest of the world. 

We of this delegation do not doubt — and I am sure that such is the opinion also of 
all the other delegates here present — that the work of the present conference will, as 
your excellency has intimated, be conducted in a spirit of harmony and with a view 
to the largest possible measure of practical achievement. As is indicated by the pro- 
gram, the conference is charged with the duty of facilitating international intercourse 
by arrangements of common utility to the several States of this hemisphere. 

It is quite true, as your excellency has justly stated, that the initiation and meeting 
of the first conference were looked upon by certain European nations with suspicion 
if not with actual alarm; but I think we may congratulate ourselves that no such 
feeling exists in any part of the world with respect to the fourth conference which has 
assembled here to-day. 

It can not be too frequently affirmed that there is nothing in American solidarity 
and constantly increasing friendship to imperil the interests of the old countries from 
which the peoples of America derive their language, their- laws, and many ol their 
customs, or indeed the interests of any other countries in the world. On the con- 
trary, we, delegates from the countries here in conference assembled, hope and feel 
that the older nations will realize from our experiments in government and from 
American international solidarity that national aggrandizement and prosperity are to 
be attained far more readily by friendship than by war. We hope and feel also that 
whenever friendship between nations is based, as that of the American Republics is, 
upon a desire to promote the welfare of mankind and the advancement of order and 
justice, such friendship can not fail to be instrumental in the fmiherance of higher 
ideals and a potent factor in the dii^usion of the blessings of peace not only on this 
American continent of ours, but in other lands beyond the seas unto the uttermost 
parts of the earth. 



ADDRESS OP HON. ANTONIO BERMEJO, DELEGATE OF THE ARGENTINE 

REPUBLIC. 

Honorable Delegates: First of all I desire to express our acknowledgment of 
the honor which you have conferred upon the Argentine Republic in designating the 
president of her delegation to occupy this high office in this honorable conference 
and, in voicing the sentiments of the nations, I take pleasure in declaring to you that 
all of you are now in your own country and in your own home. 

Favored with the honor of having you as her guests, the city of Buenos Au-es will 
endeavor to make your stay agreeable to you, so that you yourselves, placing your 
hand upon the heart of the Argentine people, may perceive her ardent aspirations 
toward confraternity with the other nations and her persistent efforts to work out her 
own destiny among them, holding as the invariable rule of her international action 
the inspirations of justice and peace. 

The purpose which brings together in this hall the high representatives of America 
has been defined and made clear by the experience of preceding assemblies, setting 
aside under the dictates of prudence everything which might divide us, in order to 
seek those practical solutions which will direct them without stumbling to the security 
of that American solidarity to which we all aspire. 

It is easy, moreover, to recognize the influence of that saving thought that floats in 
the atmosphere of our century, which grows strong in the minds of statesmen, and 
moves upon the conscience of the nations. It teaches us that nations, as well as 
individuals, are called upon to constitute a juridical community, a society ruled 
exclusively by justice and by law. 

Relegated by the present to a distant past which will not be repeated in the future, 
those schemes for political confederations and defensive alliances wrought out in the 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 49 

Congress of Panama, and in the assemblies which succeeded it down to the middle 
of the past century, have been substituted by a universal interchange profitable to all, 
and the distrust of those times there has succeeded a loyal recognition of the civilizing 
influence of Europe. 

As to the indisputable desirability of giving uniformity to the rules of international 
private law in order to decide such conflicts as arise from the diversity of legislation, 
this matter, which engaged the attention of the Congress of Jurists in Lima in 1867 
and that of Montevideo in 1888, now awaits the execution of conventions already 
entered into. The committee of jurists which is about to meet in Rio de Janeiro, and 
future conferences, will also contribute to the more precise determination of the rules 
of international public law, contributing to the action of the universal peace congresses 
held at The Hague in which, with the participation of America, a permanent tribunal 
of arbitration has been organized, the usages and customs of war, as well as those of 
neutrality, have been regulated, while at the same time it has been proposed to 
organize an international prize court. 

The States of the New World, as has been well observed, constitute a numerous 
family composed of twentj^-one sisters. To this it may be added that, older or younger, 
great or small, strong or weak, their rights are the same; and in these conferences, 
which we may consider as family councils, it is proposed to establish among them a 
unity of thought and of aspirations, in order that their practical and economic rela- 
tions may be more cordial, their interests more harmonious, and their rights more 
completely guaranteed. 

As an expression of this American solidarity in its new and progressive outlook 
and in the broadening of the scope of its action, diplomatic conferences, such as ours, 
join hands with the scientific congresses held in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de 
Janeiro, and Santiago, Chile; with the medical congresses assembled in the same 
capital cities, and with the student congresses inaugurated in 1907 in Montevideo. 

All these contribute, each in its own sphere, to cause the countries represented in 
them to know each other better, to direct their efforts effectively to the easy removal 
of their difiiculties, and, what is more than all, to learn to love one another, for this 
is the law of nations as well as of individuals. 

Furthermore, the policy of cooperation on the part of the several American States, 
not directly interested in a given conflict, for the purpose of facilitating solutions 
which are all the more reasonable and just because friendly and conciliatory, in 
the use of procedure compatible with the sovereignty of the nations in question, will 
contribute effectively to the maintenance of peace, and, with peace, general prosperity. 

Gentlemen, I understand that I am to preside over a diplomatic assembly in which 
each nation reserves to itself the benefit of its own vote, because the decisions of the 
majority do not compel the minority. We have not come together to debate doc- 
trines or to verify suppositions, but to leave on record the measures which public 
opinion in general recommends in order to secure the well being of all. Although 
less brilliant than that of a scientific or parliamentary congress, the task of the Fourth 
International Conference will be no less beneficent and practical ; it will draw closer 
the bonds which unite the American Republics, will harmonize their interests and con- 
solidate international amity. 

Moved by such aspirations, we may be permitted to say that, after a recess we con- 
tinue, in the city of Buenos Aires, the sessions which were held in Rio de Janeiro 
in 1906, which followed those of Mexico of 1902, and in Mexico those which were so 
brilliantly inaugurated in Washington in 1889. 

I am sure that there will prevail in our deliberations the lofty spirit of mutual friend- 
ship and those conciliatory sentiments which controlled the former conierences, 
and, as concerns your president, permit him, in order to the faithful discharge of his 
duty, to invoke the revered memory of the lofty example of equanimity shown by 
the illustrious statesmen who have preceded me in this honorable task, James G. 
Blaine in Washington. Genaro Raigosa in Mexico, Joaquim Nabuco in Rio de Janeiro. 

Honorable delegates, the sessions of the American assembly now continue in the 
present conference in Buenos Aires. 

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APPENDIX D 



ADDRESS OF DR. ANTONIO BERMEJO, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE, 

ON AUGUST 27, 1910. 

All the topics of the program of the Fourth International Pan American Conference 
have now been exhausted, and in inviting you to the act closing its sessions under 
direction of his excellency the minister of foreign affairs, I fulfill my duty in con- 
gratulating you upon the labor that has been performed, the spirit by which it has 
been animated, and the fruitful results that it is destined to produce. 

The program undoubtedly has been a limited one, and, it should be stated, wisely 
a limited one. It has comprehended topics of practical importance tending to bind 
countries that join one another but which do not carry on a reciprocal trade. In it 
there is nothing savoring purely of doctrinary or scientific interest, such as befits 
the institute of international law and the important features of which have been 
already codified in The Hague Congress. 

And should we seek the cause of the limitation we must indicate where the evil lies. 
Nobly engaged in the task of institutional organization, Latin America feels within its 
midst the agitation of grave problems of internal order upon the solution of which in 
turn depend still graver problems of international policy. 

The day will come, nevertheless, when, once internal peace has been assured along 
with the guaranty of all rights and liberties, and once American confraternity has been 
consolidated along with the prevalence of legal resources and the concentration of all 
interests, it will be possible to discuss openly the problems and doctrines that occupy 
the mind of the thoughtful and that agitate the mass of the people in regard to whatever 
concerns the community at large or in particular the relations of the States of America. 

Toward that goal these periodical conferences are impelling us, and as to the present 
one I may state that, in the debates carried on with such a breadth and abundance of 
knowledge in the meetings of the committees and in the deliberations of the plenary 
sessions as well, the delegations here assembled have displayed a most exalted spirit 
of conciliation and mutual concession by which all difficulties and divergences have 
been smoothed away. 

It could not be otherwise when one remarks the deferential consideration shown 
toward this Republic, and of which eloquent testimony has been given by the Govern- 
ments adhering to this conference in their appointment of delegations composed of 
representative persons versed in public affairs and inspired by the loftiest sentiments 
of harmony and cordiality. To this should be added the adoption of the most approved 
methods of parliamentary procedure, as they are observed in the diplomatic congresses 
of the world when bringing to the attention of the assembly proposals natiually elabo- 
rated by the aid of opinions freely uttered and mutually rectified and harmonized in 
the debates of the committees. 

And the practice in question may be regarded as established, not by precedent 
alone, but by the significance as well of these conferences. The problems affecting the 
interests of the States and possessing a scope not always foreseen and a complex nature, 
call for mutual and temporary concessions; to which should be added the circum- 
stance that in a juristic society in process of formation law must be worked out grad- 
ually and in a conciliatory fashion, that is to say, through a general interchange of 
ideas of men and of capital which constitute, as they do, the basis of present day 
civilization. 

Messrs. Delegates, if the preceding Pan American conferences have merited the 
prestige of illustrious statesmen like Blaine, Hay, and Root, respectively, the present 
one does justice to the lofty inspiration of its hongrary president, His Excellency the 
Secretary of State, Philander C. Knox. Owing to his deferent initiative, seconded by 
the other nations represented in the International Bureau, the first topic of the pro- 
gram is devoted to "the commemoration of the centenary of the Argentine Nation and 
the independence of the American Republics." 

^n your part, recognizing the fact that commerce is the chief agency of international 
union, you have proposed the holding of a permanent exposition of the products of the 
soil and industry of America at large and the publication of an artistic work which 

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shall reproduce facsimiles of the declarations of independence, a brief historical sketch, 
and the portraits of the heroes of emancipation. 

And it is fitting to recall at this tim.e that that emancipation, aside from a number of 
local circumstances, beholds its initial cause in the great movement of the English 
colonies of the north, in which George Washington was the fighting arm and the genius 
of action, Jefferson the power of mind that shaped the act of independence, the new 
Magna Charta of America, Chief Justice Marshall, its sapient organizer, who definitely 
modeled the most perfect organism that has ever been evolved from the human mird 
and which has illumined the path that leads to the determination of principles gov- 
erning the conduct of nations, as has been set forth with his acknowledged scientific 
authoritativeness, by our learned colleague, Mr. John Bassett Moore, in his commemo- 
ration in the State of Delaware of the centenary of the genial expounder of the Consti- 
tution. 

In this final session the delegation of the Argentine Republic wishes to give expres-. 
sion of its gratitude for the share taken by the delegations in the commemoration of its 
national festival after having made like demonstrations of homage to the anniversaries 
of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador which coincide with the period of our deliberations. 

You have also rendered due homage to that apostle of peace, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
and to his generous efforts in behalf of universal progress, pointed out the advantages 
of scientific congresses like that of Santiago, Chile, and of Buenos Aires, and deter- 
mined upon the manner of celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, the impor- 
tance of which for the world's commerce and the cause of peace undoubtedly will 
surpass that of the Suez Canal. 

This widening of the spirit of confraternity displayed in the celebration of a glory 
and progress common to the entire continent has been interrupted by manifestations 
of sorrow shared equally by all ; I refer to the expressions of condolence transmitted to 
Costa Rica for the calamity visited upon the city of Cartago, and to the Republic of 
Chile for the death of its illustrious President, His Excellency, Mr. Pedro Montt. In 
the solemn session held for this purpose it may be said that America at large bowed 
reverently before the remains of one of her favorite sons because, if indeed Mr. Montt 
was bqrn in Chile, his great heart belonged to the continent entire, having served, as 
he did, the cause of peace among all the nations of the New World. 

You have improved the organization of the Pan American Union by giving to its 
organic charter the solemnity of a convention so as to show, it would seem, that the 
effort of two decades has strengthened the solidarity of right and interest in the con- 
tinent entire. 

The honorable Dr. Knox has summed up in felicitous terms the great objects of the 
institution by observing that, thanks to its influence, the nations of Pan America 
would succeed from year to year in drawing more and more closely the bonds of good 
understanding and greater community of interests which join them; and Senator 
Root, who has left such pleasant recollections among us, has seen in the monument, 
destined to shelter it like a confession of faith, a pact of fraternal duties, a declaration 
of fidelity to an ideal ; the rule of universal public opinion condemning as an enemy 
to the happiness of the American Republics whatever by reason of a rebellious spirit 
or selfish ambition may arise to distrust the peace that should endure. 

Furthermore, the Pan American Union, not having been the result of a violation or 
of a preconceived idea of international policy, lives and will continue because it has 
arisen out of a general conviction of the benefits that it brings, and finds therein its 
greatest support. In this way one may understand why the sentiment of American 
solidarity throbs in the entire history of free America and why it has made its influence 
felt even in the midst of armed contentions that have disturbed the peace of the 
continent. It was the spirit that hovered over the chaos. 

As the surest means of attaining these results you have broached the study of meas- 
ures conducive to the increase of land and water communication as aided by uniform- 
ity in consular and customs regulations and commercial statistics. It has been 
remembered that, out of the 3,400 kilometric leagues separating Washington from 
Buenos Aires, less than one-third of that distance has yet to be covered ere the great 
work of the Pan American Railway will have been completed. It may be added that 
the railway in question, as well as river communication by the La Plata to the Orinoco, 
which is to be its complement, and the investigation of which was recommended in 
the conference at Mexico, will constitute eventually the chief arteries of circulation 
in the central portion of the continent. 

Following the same order of ideas in regard to the closer union of our peoples you 
have recommended the holding of a congress of American universities to promote 
university extension and other measures of intellectual cooperation and have made 
some provision at the same time for an interchange of professors and students. 



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In this regard I must observe that in the universities of this country will be heard 
for many years to come the pleasing echo of the eloquent lectures given in them by 
famous American professors, like Sherrill of the United States, Maiirtua of Peru, 
Cruchaga Tocornal and Alvarez of Chile, and Ramos Pedrueza of Mexico, harmonizing 
with that of the words of authority pronounced by the great masters of present day 
Bcience in Europe. 

So far as conventions and literary and industrial property are concerned, it must be 
acknowledged that you have taken a great step in legislating separately for each and 
in consecrating decisively a principle laid down by universal justice, through the 
provision that a recognition of property right secured in one State in accordance with 
its laws as fully effective in all the others without the necessity of observing any other 
formality, so long as there shall appear in the work some statement indicative of 
property right reserved. 

It is a positive consecration of the well-known aphorism; literary property is a kind 
of property through which the immanent sense of justice has prevented the spoliation 
of the noblest products of human effort. 

While not denying that the rule of reciprocity in benefits may be a decisive element 
in negotiations of a commercial character, it must be admitted that in the interchange 
of scientific, artistic, or literarj^ works the theory of the mercantile balance does hot 
apply, for the reason that a nation is always benefited by the diffusion of knowledge 
whatever be the origin of the work containing it. 

It only remains for me to allude to your important recommendations concerning 
the convention of Washington on sanitary police and the explanation of the conven- 
tions on pecuniary claims with respect to the only cases which are to be preceded by 
diplomatic negotiations. 

Messrs. Delegates. I have made then a synthesis of your work which is not to be 
sterile, and, in taking leave of you with the expression of my acknowledgment for the 
kindly considerations with which I have been honored, I beg that you will convey 
to the heart of the nations so worthily represented in this conference the good wishes 
of this people for their happiness and aggrandizement. 

Tell them that the Argentine nation longs for the day when America entire shall 
have finished her institutional evolution in the sense of forming "an indestructible 
union of indestructible states," as runs the phrase consecrated by the most authorita- 
tive Areopagus on earth. 

That it also may attain grandeur through the labor of her sons and the interchange 
of peace with all the other nations. 



ADDRESS OF SB,. EPIFANIO PORTELA, AUGUST 27, 1910. 

I am not going to make a speech; I am only going to say a few words in order to 
express thanks in my own name and in those of my coworkers in the ofiice of the 
secretary general, for the motion presented by my distinguished friend, Mr. Quesada, 
of the delegation of Cuba, and for the very kind Avords with which he has supported it. 

I do not know, gentlemen, whether the office of the secretary general has done 
everything necessary to make your labors easy and your stay in this capital agreeable, 
but I can assure you that at least everything possible has been done; such has been my 
endeavor; in order to respond to the honor shown by your Governments to our coun- 
try and to make you feel at home among us, which would temper the unavoidable 
homesickness with which you were bound to be affected on account of absence from 
your country, from your families, from your business, from everything that binds one 
to his native soil. 

I ought in my turn also to thank you profoundly for all the assistance which you 
have rendered to the office of the secretary general without which the accomplish- 
ment of your complex and difficult task, to which I have alluded, would not have 
been possible. 

And now, gentlemen, upon the very happy termination of your labors, I hope that 
you may take to your homes the best impressions of this land, and with them the 
beautiful vision which you leave among us of America, great in the expansion of its 
commerce; in its industries; its intellectual culture; strong in the close, the intimate 
solidarity of its moral, material, and political interests; and loved and respected 
because of its observance of right and its devotion to justice. 



APPENDIX E. 



ADDRESS OF DR. CARLOS RODRIGUEZ LARRETA, HONORARY PRESIDENT 
OF THE CONFERENCE, ON AUGUST 30, 1910. 

We have witnessed an exceptional event. Buenos Aires has seen America con- 
vened in this memorable assembly. No ceremony could have more worthily figured 
in the celebration of our first centennial, and the republics cf the continent could not 
have rendered greater homage to our independence nor have sent us their congratu- 
lations by more distinguished messengers. 

The future conferences will meet successively in the other capitals of America, 
and before they have completed their final circle and before the circuit close on 
Buenos Aires, gentlemen, about a century will have elapsed. Neither we, nor even 
our children, are to be seated again on benches such as these. 

Things sometimes are more lasting than human life against the destructive work of 
time; but it may also be that this very building, recently completed, will have been 
replaced at that time by some edifice more vast and more sumptuous, which will 
better correspond to the immense capital of the second centennial. 

Only the past of your deliberations will remain indestructible; the minutes which 
will contain the thought of the Governments and of the best men of America con- 
cerning difficult problems; the treaties signed to draw nearer and develop the inter- 
ests; the harmony of twenty nations sprung into independent existence almost at 
the same time and under the same conditions; and, above all, gentlemen, you must 
permit me, on this occasion, to disclose the common feeling that there is an American 
spirit; that there is a continental spirit which could not be formed among the colonial 
and dispersed islands of Oceania, nor among the barbarous tribes of Africa, nor among 
the sovereignties of Asia, of which Japan alone has achieved incorporation into 
contemporaneous civilization, nor in Europe itself , our common mother, the civilizer 
of the world, which counts races by nations, and has not yet been able to completely 
obliterate its sectional antagonisms. 

But this peculiarity, gentlemen, imposes duties upon us which are correlative. 
We must establish a common friendship to protect ourselves reciprocally in the devel- 
opment of our material interests; we must respect the rights of all the republics and 
never exercise force except to the rule of justice; great or small we must not forget, 
either, that the acts of our Governments and of our political parties give prestige to 
or tarnish the name America. 

I recognize that along this path your conferences have made great strides and were 
always the significant expression of a high ideal of continental fraternity. If your 
programs are narrow, it is because they designate a neutral ground upon which with- 
outserious misunderstandings so many sovereign nations can meet; but, on the other 
hand, they are fully carried out, always marking thereby the gradual extension of 
our first victories. You, representatives of America, have worked for the better- 
ment of your antellectual, economic, and mercantile conditions. You have stimu- 
lated interchange of all sorts and OA'erlooked boundaries for many interests. You 
have consolidated the intellectual union by legislating wisely on the bureau of our 
Republics. You have fostered the study of national problems, and you have honored 
the labors of the scientific congresses. And if at times you interrupted your fruitful 
labors it has been to render homage to the American spirit, sending to the peoples, 
or to men, your word of encouragement, of gratitude, or of consolation. 

I certainly do not belittle the importance of the work done, if I allow myself to 
hope for the future, once international boundaries are established and the final ques- 
tions which separate certain countries of the continent are settled, that the programs 
of future conferences be enlarged, including all the problems of industry, commerce, 
resources, and labor; seeking how our railroads, how our rivers, how our great oceans 
may be converted into factors of a single progress and a single welfare in order that 
we 'may reach the common ideal of obtaining the happiness of our peoples and of lev- 
eling, also, as far as possible, the inequalities of fortune and history. 

I have said nothing on the principles of international law, because I do not believe 
that there is an American international law. I believe there is but one civilized 

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international law, and wince all the American Republics have been invited fo the 
conference of The Hague we ought, in my judgment, treat these questions with the 
other nations of the earth; but I again invoke the American sp>irit and I ask you: 
"Why should not the nations of this continent be the heralds and movers of that wish 
which echoes everywhere agitating the spirit of the popular masses in the great nations, 
the clamorous wish of universal peace?" 

The first Hague Conference produced the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of 
International Disputes, which created the committees of investigation and aided the 
procedure to establish scientific arbitration. Owing to this world-wide treaty — the 
first in the history of humanity — many grave difficulties that might have disturbed 
the peace of nations have disappeared in peaceful agreements. 

The second conference desired to solve two most important problems that would 
present a decisive step forward in the progress of international law — obligatory arbi- 
tration and the creation of a paramount court of justice. Both problems were solved 
in principle, but their application is delayed by difficulties which it is impossible to 
overcome. The agreement to formulate the rules of obligatory arbitration was only 
obtained on eight points and only had the votes of 32 nations. In the thi-ee States not 
voting and in the nine contrary votes, gentlemen, no American nation is numbered. 
The assembly, however, desired to obtain unanimity before adding this new triumph 
to the universal treaty of the first conference. 

The permanent court of justice which would haA^e had to apply the rules of oblig- 
atory arbitration was created under a convention which received unanimous approval, 
but it was not possible to find any system, accepted by all the nations, under which 
to organize the new tribunal. While some supported equality of representation for 
all countries, others desired to provide, by means of diplomatic procedure, a pro- 
portional representation in accordance with the influence which each country exer- 
cised in the world. The first theory gave the majority to the weak nations; the 
second gave it to the strong nations; irreconcilable ideas, and the establishment of 
the new permanent tribunal remained at a standstill. 

I have just stated the most important problems of contemporaneous international 
law. They mark; in my judgment, the only channel that can lead us to the judicial 
peace of the world. We shall reach it by that road or we shall not reach it at all, 
since I do not believe that the limitation of armaments is reconcilable with the natural 
conduct of nations. Peace can not come except from the sanction of universal laws, 
and the establishment of an international tribunal. 

And, therefore, in your exalted rostrum which has the continent for its auditorium, 
I solemnly pray that the natives of America, be it through their Governments, be 
it through the office of their republics in Washington, be it in a fifth conference, 
study the problems, seek the most appropriate solutions, and that united they sup- 
port them as a contribution to human happiness in the first conference thai may 
assemble at The Hague. 

Gentlemen, in this year the majority of our republics complete a century of inde- 
pendent life. We can now say, as in Washington, "America for humanity," because 
we are sovereign nations and the place we occupy in the world we owe to strength 
of our own arm and to our blood heroically shed . But let my last words be to send from 
here a message of acknowledgment to the great nation which initiated these con- 
ferences, which preceded us in the struggle for independence, which afforded us 
the example of a fruitful people organized as a republican nation, which on a day 
memorable in history said: "America for the Americans," and covered as it were 
with a shield the independence we had won. 

Gentlemen, I declare the Fourth International American Conference closed. 



ADDEESS OF DR. LUIS TOLEDO HERRARTE AT THE CLOSING SESSION 
OF THE CONGRESS, ATIGXIST, 1910. 

If the fourth international conference, which at this moment solemnly closes its 
session, had endeavored to show with those that preceded it and demonstrate in 
an irrefutable way the broad and friendly spirit in which all its acts have been per- 
formed, it could not have succeeded in doing so any better than to-day by desig- 
nating as representative of the honorable delegations who compose this august body 
the humble representative of one of the smallest countries of the continent, and 
signifying by such noble procedure that in this memorable love feast, offered to all 
America by the glorious Argentine Republic, all of us take part with equal right and 
identical responsibility, and that under the sumptuous roof of this building, which 



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has been our home, there is but one title which can and ought to resound, and that 
is the title of "Brother." 

To render thanks for the immense honor which through my person is bestowed 
upon the people and Government I represent and to the section of the New World 
to which I am proud to belong would be to belittle its magnitude and to endeavor 
to crystallize in words, always inadequate, sentiments and feelings which man has 
not yet learned to express. I confine myself, therefore, to saying to you all, "Thanks, 
my colleagues and companions." 

Conferences like the present respond to a very lofty aspiration; they are the magnifi- 
cent exponents of the grade of civilization and culture reached by humanity and they 
have in the history of the world of Columbus, connections, antecedents, and founda- 
tions which sanction them in an immutable and definite form. To the infinite as- 
pirations of the liberator, who, after having emancipated constellations of peoples, did 
not free himself from his ideals except upon the boundless bosom of death, did 
the initiative of the Congress of Panama belong, as did the generous, exalted and sym- 
pathetic action of one of the greatest and noblest of spirits which has breathed in this 
continent — that of Henry Clay, who could justly be called the father of the Pan Ameri- 
can idea, and this idea is one that, like all redemptionary and important ideas, has 
made its way_ in the world, and has had its precursors, its promoters, its martyrs, its 
apostles and its converts. To recall their names already anointed with the gratitude 
of peoples would expose me to the risk of making lamentable omissions, and therefore 
I limit myself to asking that this conference, the direct result of their efforts, should 
retain a thankful remembrance of the spirits of those illustrious dead and of the very 
eminent persons who happily for us still live, and who have struggled and suffered in 
order to plant the luxuriant tree from which we are beginning to gather already the 
ripened and most beneficial fruits. 

If the group which is the fatherland is nothing more than the extension of the family 
and the latter in its turn does not represent anything more than the multiplication of 
the individual in time and space, how can we help but comprehend that the tendency 
and aspiration for American fraternity are for us, the sons of the Western Hemisphere, 
the highest form of patriotism. Man grows fond of the crags, mountains, plains, and 
valleys in which his first years were sjjent, and he who studies ethnical and geograph- 
ical affinities becomes firmly attached to the portion of the globe in which he happens 
to be borne. America, if not created at least discovered by the gigantic enterprise 
of the hero of Genoa, arose, an immaculate, entire and pure virgin at the same his- 
toric moment, and although its fate has been different during the colonial period, un- 
derstood that in the future the destinies of its various sections were inseparably con- 
nected; finding the genuine expression of the sentiment intuitive, and therefore in- 
destructible in the formation of the Monroe Doctrine, interpreted in its broad and 
magnanimous spirit by the eminent Argentine statesman who to-day honors us with 
his presence and who by the just vote of his own fellow- citizens must very soon fill the 
supreme magistry of this privileged country. 

Much has been said in analyzing the ultimate result of the conferences, of the fears 
that their assembling might cause our common mother, Europe. Publicists, perhaps 
badly informed, may have been apprehensive that upon the assembling of the Ameri- 
can peoples in fraternal intercourse, we were about to forget what we owe to those 
civilizations so many centuries old; and to renounce, like ungrateful children, our 
origin, our country, and our blood. Happily nothing has occurred that might justify 
such pessimistic apprehensions; and with a calm spirit and dispassionate judgment, 
these periodical meetings are judged, it will be understood that, at the same time 
they benefit our peoples, assure peace, increase their welfare, render firm their credit, 
and extend their possibilities and energy, they influence in a decisive manner the 
harmonious development of the world, and therefore they affirm and draw closer the 
bonds which unite us with the countries of the Old World. All of which tends to 
better the conditions of living mankind in the world and in hastening his progressive 
development, broadens and augments the sum of happiness to which the race can 
aspire, constitutes a secure guaranty of its commercial expansion and of its future 
prospects, and guarantees by this means the growth and the power of the others, since 
the attainment of large properties rests more on the wealth and on the advance of the 
other bodies than on the properties themselves; and never on ruin or decadence or 
downfall of their rivals. 

Men inspired no doubt with excellent intentions, but dragged by the Pegasus of 
a generous Utopia have believed that they could save themselves at a given moment 
from deep abysses and that they could scale inaccessible heights, going so far as to 
Bay that conferences like the present have defrauded the hopes of the peoples and 
fallen far short of the desires that move humanity, in view of the limitation of the 
programs and the severe conciseness of the topics treated in them. Such a manner 



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of thinking involves no doubt broad and laudable views, but it implies at the same 
time a complete forgetfulness of what is fatal and irresistible in the laws that rule 
the world with regard to biological and social matters. If Linnteus attained his glory 
and Darwin his universal renov/n, proclaiming and proving that nature does not 
skip, we have shown by our action and our modest labor that we prefer to advance 
a centimeter upon solid and firm ground to launching ourselves like Icarus in the 
starry firmament and to fall like him with our wings broken and our illusions dead, 
upon the cold realities of the earth. A great man, who can not help being remem- 
bered during circumstances like the present, Senator Root, said upon inaugurating 
the monumental edifice that shelters the International Bureau of the American 
Republics, that the Pan American ideal had advanced slowly and surely, and that 
this itself proved its deepseatedness in the minds of the peoples and was an assurance 
of its success in the future. "Make haste slowly," said the ancients, our masters in 
everything, and to this wise and profound advice we have conformed in discharging 
the task commended to our zeal. 

I am not going to enter upon an analysis of the work done by this conference. 

After the brilliant scene and complete statement of it made by our venerated 
president, it would be a task as venturesome as it is unnecessary. At this point I 
would like only to recall that the statesmen and diplomats who, with the valuable 
cooperation of the illustrious Secretary of State of the United States, Philander C. 
Knox, formulated in Washington the program that has served as the basis for our 
deliberations had in mind especially the idea of strengthening and drawing closer 
the relations among the peoples of the hemisphere by creating a community of mterest 
among them; by increasing maritime communication; by assuring the existence of 
the Pan American Union, the importance and utility of which is shown by two 
decades of most meritorious and prolific labor; by preserving the health and life of 
the inhabitants of the New World through the adoption of proper and humane meas- 
ures, both hygienic and prophylactic; by guaranteeing artistic and literary prop- 
erty; by fixing the form in which our exchange of professors and students may be 
arranged so as to bring up men and generations fitted to the task of accomplishing 
what we unfortunately have not been able to do, and by fostering, in general, among 
the members of the great American family who think well of one another but who 
know one another very slightly the currents of solidarity, cohesion, and sympathy 
which have already brought with them as an immediate result, though never suffi- 
ciently appreciated, the knowledge that we have acquired and that has been obtained 
of us in this great and prosperous country. 

We have agreed, furthermore, upon the manner in which the opening of the Pan- 
ama Canal is to be celebrated, which, if due indeed to the persevering and herculean 
efforts of the great American people, represents for the world at large the beginning 
of a new era; it opens a broad and alluring haven to the nations of the continent, 
and to those of the central portion of it in particular; and by reason of its incalculable 
importance may only be compared with the discovery of America, that gave us mate- 
rial existence, and with the political emancipation that made us freemen at once 
responsible and conscious. 

Hand in hand with our friends we are seen, at once united and interjoined, inton- 
ing on memorable occasions hymns to the epic glories of the American Republics 
and mingling our tears with those which a destiny implacable and blind has drawn, 
for one reason or another, from the eyes of our brethren. 

The same spirit of kindly forbearance and brotherly concord has prevailed through- 
out our debates and discussions. Tourneys there were in which, as in medieval 
times, the champions embraced one another in knightly fashion before and after the 
combat, but never a poisonous encounter to leave a particle of rancor or bitterness 
in the heart. Divergent views and opinions could have been carried to extremes, 
but the circumstances simply prove that we move in an atmosphere of complete 
liberty and of absolute independence, and when, as is bound to occur, an agreement 
was reached and a conciliation effected, there were neither conquerors nor conquered, 
since both felt the same intimate satisfaction, the same consoling fruition. 

Here is the work that under the high and favorable auspices of the supreme gov- 
ernment of the Argentine Republic it has fallen to us to realize. It is not for me to 
judge or estimate it, but I think it proper to affirm without boasting that, on leaving 
for the last tim.e this room in which we have so often assembled, we can bear with us 
to our respective countries the satisfaction of having performed whatever lay within 
our power, thus fulfilling worthily the mandate with which we have been honored 
and, so far as we could, cooperating in the attainment of the ideals that are to assure 
the happiness of our children and the good fortune of the pleiades of peoples, alike 
republican and democratic, who make up the New World. 



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Ungrateful would it be if in concluding this oration I was not to render, in the name 
of my honorable colleagues, a heartfelt tribute of gratitude and acknowledgment to 
the Argentine Government, over which His Excellency Mr. .Tos6 Figueroa Alcorta 
so worthily presides, and to his eminent collaborators as well, for the constant and 
multiple favors that have been shown us; to the illustrious gentlemen of the preceding 
board who, by reason of their undeniably exquisite tactfulness and benevolence, were 
the prime factors in the success that has accompanied this congress; to all the author- 
ities of this marvelous capital for their courteous and kindly efforts in our behalf; 
and finally to the committee of most distinguished ladies, who with their many deeds 
of hospitality reminded us of the warmth and sweetness of our distant and beloved 
homes. 

Mr. Minister, a sentiment of most intense admiration has pervaded us when we 
behold the grandiose and incomparable manner in which the Argentine Republic has 
made known to the world and to history the progress and advancement which the 
blessings of peace and the stimulating action of right and justice, honorable labor, 
and wealth of soil have enabled it to attain within a century of autonomous and inde- 
pendent life; and in acknowledging and extolling most enthusiastically such won- 
drous results we lift oui* prayer to Providence that the future may have still greater 
triumphs in store for this noble people and that they may continue to be as they are 
now, the honor and glory of the I-atin race and the gem' of legitimate pride of their 
continental brethren. 



APPENDIX F. 



OFFICIALS AND DELEGATES OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFER- 
ENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

Honorary presidents of the conference. — Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State of the 
United States of America; Victorino de la Plaza/ Minister of Foreign Relations of the 
Argentine Republic . 

President of the conference. — Dr. Antonio Bermejo, delegate of the Argentine 
Republic. 

Secretary general. — Sr. Epifanio Portela, delegate of the Argentine Republic. 

Secretaries. — Dr. Arturo L. Dominguez, Dr. M. G. Sdnchez Sorondo. 

Director of the section of committees. — Sr. Julian E. Portela. 

Director of publications . — Dr. Rafael Alberto Palomeque. 

Interpreter. — Rev. Charles W. Drees. 

Chief translator . — Sr. W. R. Powers. 

Chief stenographer . — Sr. Tomds Jefferson Allen. 

International Bureau of the American Republics. — Sr. Francisco J. Ydnes. 

Delegations. 

united states of america. 
Mr. Henry AVhite. 
Col. Enoch H. Crowder. 
Mr. Lewis Nixon. 
Mr. John Bassett Moore. 
Mr. Bernard Moses. 
Mr. Lamar C. Quintero. 
Mr. Paul S. Reinsch. 
Mr. David Kinley. 

Mr. Edward B. Moore, expert attache. 
Mr. William R. Shepherd, principal secretary. 
Mr. Cabot Ward, secretary. 
Mr. W. T. S. Doyle, secretary. 
Mr. Sidney Y. Smith, treasurer. 
Miss Margaret M. Hanna, attache. 
Mr. W. P. Montgomery', attach^. 

ARQENTINE REPUBLIC. 

Sr. Eduardo L. Bidau. 

Sr. Manuel A. Montes de Oca. 

Sr. Carlos Rodriguez Larreta.^ 

Sr. Roque Saenz Pena. 

Sr. Carlos Salas. 

Sr. Jos6 A. Terry. 

Sr. Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

BRAZIL. 

Sr. Joaquim Murtinho. 

Sr. Domicio da Gama. 

Sr. Jos6 L. Almeida Nogueira. 

Sr. Olavo Bilac. 

Sr. Gastao da Cunha, 

Sr. Herculano de Freitas. 

Sr. Frederico Castello Branco Clark, secretary. 

Sr. Helio Lobo, secretary. 

Sr. Lafayette Pereira (filho), secretary. 

1 On the resignation ol Dr. Plaza, Sr. Carlos Rodriguez Larreta, of the Argentine delegation, was appointed 
minister for foreign affairs, and thereby became honorary president of the conference. 

' On the retirement of St. Victorino de la Plaza as minister for foreign affairs, Sr. Larreta succeeded hinii 
and thereby became honorary president of the conference. 

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CHILE. 

Sr. Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal. 

Sr. Emilo Bello Codecido. 

Sr. Anlbal Cruz Diaz. 

Sr. Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Sr. Alejandro Alvarez, teclinical delegate. 

Sr. Julio Phillipi, counsellor. 

Sr. Enrique Balmaceda, secretary. 

Sr. Diego de Castro Orttizar, secretary. 

Sr. Fermfn Vergara, secretary. 

COLOMBIA. 

Sr. Roberto Anclzar. 

Sr. Pedro Sondereguer, secretary. 

COSTA RICA. 

Sr. Alfredo Volio. 

Sr. Pedro Yglesias, secretary. 

CUBA. 

Sr. Carlos Garcia V61ez. 

Sr. Rafael Montoro y Vald^s. 

Sr. Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui. 

Sr. Antonio Gonzalo P^rez. 

Sr. Jos6 M. Carbonell, delegate and secretary. 

Sr. Rafael Gutierrez, secretary. 

Sr. Jos6 F. Campillo, secretary. 

Sr. Rafael Caspar Montoro, attacb^. ■ , ] 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 

Sr. Am^rico Lugo. 



ECUADOR. 



Sr. Alejandro Cardenas. 
Sr. Anibal Viteri, secretary. 
Sr. Cat6n C^denas, attache. 



GUATEMALA. 



Sr. Luis Toledo Herrarte, delegate. 
Sr. Manuel Arroyo. 
Sr. Mario Estrada. 



Sr. Constantino Fouchard. 

HONDURAS. 

Sr. Luis Lazo Arriaga. 

MEXICO. 

Sr. Victoriano Salado Alvarez. 
Sr. Luis P^rez Verdia. 
Sr. Antonio Ramos Pedrueza. 
t Sr. Roberto Esteva Ruiz. 



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NICARAGUA. 

Sr. Manuel Perez Alonzo. 

Sr. Salvador Guerrero Montalban, secretary. 



Sr. Belisario Porras. 

Sr. Manuel de Obaldia, secretary. 

PARAGUAY. 

Sr. Jos6 Irala. 

Sr. Teodosio Gonzalez. 

Sr. Jos6 P. Montero. 



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Sr. Eugenio Larrabure y Undnue. 

Sr. Carlos Alvarez Calder6n. 

Sr. Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Sr. Anlbal Maiirtua, secretary. 

Sr. Alfredo Alvarez Calder6n, secretary. 

Sr. Juan Bautista de Lavalle, secretary. 

Sr. Fernando Larrabure y Correa, attache. 

SALVADOR. 

Sr. Federico Mejia, 

Sr. Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

URUGUAY. 

Sr. Gonzalo Ramirez. 

Sr. Carlos M. de Pena. 

Sr. Antonio M. Rodriguez. 

Sr. Juan Jos6 Amezaga, delegate and secretary. 

VENEZUELA. 

Sr. Manuel Diaz Rodriguez. 

Sr. C^sar Zumeta. 

Sr. Manuel F. Fernandez. 



APPENDIX e. 



COMMITTEES OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF 

AMERICAN STATES. 

First Committee. 

subject i. — rules and credentials. 

[Five members.] 

Gen. Carlos Garcia V61ez (Cuba), chairman. 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza (Mexico), secretary. 
Estanislao S. Zeballos (Argentina). 
Herculano de Freitas (Brazil). 
Beltrdn Mathieu (Chile). 

Second Committee. 

subjects ii, v, xiii, and xiv. commemoration op the independence of the 

american republics, etc. 

[Seven members.] 

Eugenio Larrabure y Undnue (Peru), chairman. 
C^sar Zumeta (Venezuela), secretary. 
Henry "White (United States of America). 
Emilio Bello Codecido (Chile). 
Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 
Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico). 
Teodosio Gonzalez (Paraguay). 

Third Committee. ^ 

subject ni. — reports and memorials submitted concerning the action of the 
governments on the resolutions of the third conference. 

[One member from each delegation.] 

Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, chairman (Chile). 

Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, secretary (Cuba). 

Henry White (United States of America). 

Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca (Argentina). 

Olavo Bilac (Brazil). 

Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 

Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 

Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Alejandro Cardenas (Ecuador). 

Manuel Arroyo (Guatemala). 

Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 

Luis Lazo Arriaga (Honduras). 

Luis Perez Verdia (Mexico). 

Manuel Perez Alonso (Nicaragua). 

Belisario Porras (Panama). 

Jos6 Montero (Paraguay). 

Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue (Peru). 

Francisco Martinez Suarez (Salvador). 

Carlos M. de Pena (Uruguay). 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela). 

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Fourth Committee, 

subject iv. — report of the director of the international bureau of the 

american republics. 

[One member from each delegation.] 

Anfbal Cruz Diaz|(Chile), chairman. 

Antonio M. Rodriguez (Uruguay), secretary. 

Paul S. Reinsch (United States of America). 

Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca (Argentina). 

Gastao da Cunha (Brazil). 

Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 

Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 

Carlos Garcia Velez (Cuba). 

Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Alejandro Cdrdenas (Ecuador). 

Luis Toledo Herrarte (Guatemala). 

(Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 

Luis Lazo Arriaga (Honduras). 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza (Mexico). 

Manuel P6rez Alonso (Nicaragua). 

Belisario Porras (Panama). 

Jos6 Montero (Paraguay). 

Carlos Alvarez Calderon (Peru). 

Federico Mejia (Salvador). 

C&ar Zumeta (Venezuela). 

Fifth Committee, 

subject vi. — pan american railway. 

rOne member from each, delegation.] 

Federico Mejia (Salvador), chairman. 
Juan Jose Amezaga (Uruguay), secretary. 
John Bassett Moore (United States). 
Estanislao S. Zeballos (Argentina). 
Herculano de Freitas (Brazil). 
Beltrdn Mathieu (Chile). 
Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 
Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 
Antonio Gonzalo P6rez (Cuba). 
Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic), 
Alejandro Cardenas (Ecuador). 
Luis Toledo Herrarte (Guatemala). 
Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 
Luis Lazo Arriaga (Honduras). 
Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico), 
Manuel P6rez Alonso (Nicaragua). 
Belisario Porraa (Panama). 
Carlos Alvarez Calderon (Peru). 
C^sar Zumeta (Venezuela). 

Sixth Committee. 

subject vn. — steamship communication. 

[Seven members.] 

Lewis Nixon (United States of America), chairman. 

Jos4 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo (Peru), secretary. 

Jose L. Almeida Nogueira (Brazil). 

Anlbal Cruz Diaz (Chile). 

Rafael Montoro y Valdes (Cuba). 

Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico), 

Gonzalo Ramirez (Uruguay). 



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Seventh Committee. 

subject vin. — uniformity of consular documents, customs regulations, cen- 
sus and commercial statistics. 

[One member from each delegatioa.] 

Rafael Montoro y Vald^s (Cuba), chairman. 

Manuel Arroyo (Guatemala), secretary. 

Enoch H. Crowder (United States of America). 

Jose A. Terry ( Ar§;entina) . 

Herculano de Freitas (Brazil). 

Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal ('Chile). 

Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 

Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 

Am^rico Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Alejandro Cdrdenas (Ecuador). 

Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 

Luis Lazo Arriaga (Honduras). 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza (Mexico). 

Manuel P^rez Alonso (Nicaragua). 

Belisario Porras (Panama). 

Teodosio Gonzalez (Paraguay). 

Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo (Peru). 

Francisco Martinez Su^rez (Salvador). 

Carlos M. de Pena (Uruguay). 

C6sar Zumeta (Venezuela). 

Eighth Committee. 

subject ix. — sanitary police. 

[A member from each delegation.] 

Carlos M. de Pena (Uruguay), chairman. 

Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), secretary. 

David Kinley (United States of America). 

Carlos Salas (Argentina). 

Jose L. Almeida No^ueira (Brazil). 

Roberto Ancizar (Colombia). 

Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 

Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui (Cuba). 

Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Alejandro Cardenas (Ecuador). 

Manuel Arroyo (Guatemala) . 

Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 

Luis Perez Verdia (Mexico). 

Manuel P^rez Alonso (Nicaragua). 

Belisario Porras (Panama). 

Jose Montero (Paraguay). 

Francisco Martinez Suarez (Salvador). 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela). 

Ninth Committee. 

subject x. — patents and trade-marks. 

[Seven members.] 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza (Mexico), chairman. 

Antonio Gonzalo Perez (Cuba), secretary. 

Lamar Charles Quintero (United States of America) . 

Estanislao S. Zeballos (Argentina). 

Jos4 L. Almeida Nogueira (Brazil). 

EmUio Bello Codecido (Chile). 

Juan Jos^ Amezaga (Uruguay). 

Tenth Committee. 

FOR the STUDY OP A CONVENTION BETWEEN THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS CONCERNING 
INTELLECTUAL AND LITERARY PROPERTY AND SUBJECT XII. 

[Seven members.] 

Luis Perez Verdia (Mexico), chairman. 
Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica), secretary. 
Bernard Moses (United States of America). 



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Eduardo L. Bidau (Argentina). 
Olavo Bilac (Brazil). 
Alejandro Alvarez (Chile). 
Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue (Peru). 

Eleventh Committee. 

subject xi. — pecuniary claims. 

[Seven members.] 

Gonzalo Ramirez (Uruguay), chairman. 

Mario Estrada (Guatemala), secretary. 

John Bassett Moore (United States of America). 

Eduardo L. Bidau (Argentina). 

Gastao da Cunha (Brazil). 

Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico). 

Twelfth Committee. 

subject XV. — FUTURE CONFERENCES. 

[One member from each delegation.] 

Victoriano Salado Alvarez (Mexico), chairman. 

Luis Lazo Airiaga (Hondiiras), secretary. 

Lamar Charles Quintero (United States of America). 

Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca (Argentina). 

Gastao da Cunha (Brazil). 

Anibal Cruz Diaz (Chile). 

Roberto Ancfzar (Colombia). 

Alfredo Volio (Costa Rica). 

Carlos Garcia Velez (Cuba). 

Americo Lugo (Dominican Republic). 

Alejandro Cardenas (Ecuador). 

Luis Toledo Herrarte (Guatemala). 

Constantino Fouchard (Haiti). 

Manuel Perez Alonso (Nicaragua). 

Belisario Porras (Panama). 

Jose Irala (Paraguay). 

Carlos Alvarez Calderon (Peru). 

Federico Mejia (Salvador). 

Antonio M. Rodriguez (Uruguay). 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela). 

Thirteenth Committee. 

publications. 

[Five members.] 

Jose M. Caibonnell (Cuba), chairman. 

Luis Perez Verdia (Mexico), secretary. 

Paul Samuel Reinsch (United States of America). 

Carlos Rodriguez Larreta (Aruentina). 

Olavo Bilac '(Brazil). 

Fourteenth Committee. 

general welfare. 

[Five members.] 

Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo (Peru), chaii'mau. 
Antonio M. Rodriguez (LTruguay), secretary. 
Bernard Moses (United States of America).; 
Domic io da Gama (Brazil). 
Bel tr^n Mathieu (Chile). 






APPENDIX H. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO 
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, 
CONCERNING THE ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED 
STATES UPON THE CONVENTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE THIRD 
CONFERENCE. 

Mr. President and honorable delegates: 

The delegation of the United States of America to the Fourth International Con- 
ference of American States has the honor to submit the following report of the action 
of the Government of the United States on the conventions and resolutions adopted 
at the Third Conference, held at Rio de Janeiro, July 21 to August 26, 1906. For 
convenience of reference the several conventions and resolutions herein referred to 
have been given numbers corresponding to the order in which those conventions and 
resolutions appear in the report of the delegates of the United States to the Third 
Conference. 

CONVENTIONS. 

I. The first convention concerns the establishment of the status of naturalized citi- 
zens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin. This conven- 
tion was approved by the Senate of the United States on January 13, 1908, was ratified 
by the President on January 16, 1908, and the instrument of ratification was deposited 
with the Government of Brazil on February 25, 1908. 

II. The second convention, which deals with pecuniary claims, was approved by 
the Senate of the United States on March 2, 1907, was ratified by the President on 
March 13, 1907, and the instrument of ratification was deposited with the Government 
of Brazil on April 23, 1907. _ 

III. In regard to the third convention, which relates to patents and inventions, 
drawings, and industrial models, trade-marks, and literary and artistic property, it 
may be stated that, owing to the great difficulty of harmonizing existing patent legis- 
lation and practice with the plan of this convention, no action thereon has been taken 
by the Government of the United States. This legislation and practice conform in 
all particulars to the treaty of Paris of 1883, to which the United States, Brazil, and 
the nations of Europe have adhered, and as the workings of that treaty have been 
satisfactory to all the signatory States, it is believed to be in the interest of all nations 
that any new conventions into which they may enter should be framed on similar 
lines, to the end that a system uniform and world wide in its operation may be estab- 
lished. 

IV. The fourth convention provides for the appointment of a commission of jurists 
to prepare a draft of a code of private international law and a draft of a code of public 
international law regulating the relations between the nations of America. This con- 
vention was approved by the Senate of the United States on February 3, 1908, was 
ratified by the President on February 8, 1908, and the instrument of ratification was 
deposited with the Government of Brazil on March 16, 1908. The Congress of the 
United States has made an appropriation for the expense of the representation of the 
United States on this commission. 

We may add that the United States has ratified the copyright convention adopted 
by the Second Conference held in Mexico in 1902; but, even with regard to this con- 
vention, the situation has recently been somewhat changed by the action of the copy- 
right congress held in Berlin in 1909, the proceedings of which have an important 
bearing upon any new international copyright measures that may now be in contem- 
plation. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

1. Instructions in harmony with the first resolution, which was designed to advance 
the cause of international arbitration, were given by the Government of the United 
States to its representatives at the Second Peace Conference at The Hague. 

2, 3, 5, 8, and 10. The second resolution, concerning the reorganization of the 
International Bureau of the American Republics; the third resolution, relating to the 
building for that bureau; the fifth resolution, dealing with the creation of a section 
of commerce, customs, and commercial statistics in that bureau; the eighth resolu- 
tion, concerning commercial relations, and the tenth resolution, dealing with natural 

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resources, are matters which properly fall within the scope of the detailed report to 
be presented by the Director of the Bureau to this conference, and on which his report 
is awaited. 

4. In accordance with the fourth resolution, recommending the appointment by 
the various Governments of committees responsible to their respective ministers of 
foreign affairs, for the purpose of promoting the ratification of the various conventions 
and resolutions by their Governments, of collecting desirable information, and of 
exercising such other functions as the respective appointing Governments may deem 
proper, the Secretary of State of the United States, on February 21, 1908, appointed a 
committee, the present membership of which is as follows: 

Andrew Carnegie, Esq., delegate of the United States to the First International 
Conference of American States. 

The Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, a Senator. 

The Hon. James B. McCreary, formerly a Senator. 

The Hon. Charles B. Landis, formerly a Representative in Congress. 

The Hon. James L. Slayden, a Representative in Congress. 

The Hon. Robert Bacon, ambassador to France, formerly Secretary of State. 

Maj. Gen. George W. Davis, United States Army, retired. 

Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California. 

Dr. Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois. 

Dr. L. S. Rowe, delegate of the United States to the Third International Conference 
of American States. 

Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, delegate of the United States to the Third International Con- 
ference of American States. 

William E. Curtis, Esq., formerly director of the International Bureau of the Ameri- 
can Republics. 

The Hon. John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of the American Repub- 
lics^ formerly envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, delegate of the 
United States to the Second International Conference of American States. 

The Hon. Henry G. Davis, formerly a Senator, delegate of the United States to the 
First and the Second International Conference of American States. 

The Hon. Henry White, chairman of the delegation of the United States to the pres- 
ent conference; formerly ambassador to France. 

This committee promptly effected its organization, and has since held frequent 
meetings in the city of Washington. It has put itself in communication with the com- 
mittees appointed by other governments for the promotion of the common purposes 
for which such committees were created, and has been helpful in securing the rati- 
fication of the conventions to which the Government of the United States has given 
its adherence as herein rejiorted. 

The committee has had under consideration the question of uniformity of census 
data, and has suggested that it would be advisable for all the countries of the Interna- 
tional Union of American Republics to establish a periodical census of population, 
and that this conference might well recommend for the purpose the appointment of 
an international census committee, which should have as its aim the taking of a 
census for all America in 1920. 

The committee, furthermore, has furnished the Department of State with reports 
on certain Pan American interests and relations and has supplied the Secretary of 
State with data for his use in making suggestions, as a member of the governing board 
of the International Bureau of the American Republics, for the program of the present 
conference. 

6. As recommended in the sixth resolution, which concerns public debts, the Gov- 
ernment of the United States instructed its delegates to the Second Peace Conference 
at The Hague to bring to the attention of that conference the question of the compul- 
sory collection of public debts and pecuniary claims, and the conference adopted a 
convention for the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract 
debts. 

7. Oil the seventh resolution, which concerns the regulation of admission to the 
practice of the liberal professions, the Government of the United States, on account 
of the limitations imposed upon it by the Constitution, has not been able to take direct 
action. 

9. As to the ninth resolution, the object of which was to assure the periodical 
assembling of the conference at short intervals, the Government of the United States 
views with approval the method embodied in this resolution, whereby the governing 
board of the International Bureau of the American Republics was authorized to 
designate the place of meeting, and, subject to the conditions fixed by the conference, 
the date thereof. 

11. The Government of the United States has complied with the three recommenda- 
tions contained in the eleventh resolution, which relates to sanitary police, ha\ing 
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that time having been represented at the sanitary conventions held in Mexico in 1907 
and in Costa Rica in 1909. The United States, furthermore, has so perfected the sani- 
tation of its ports that all are now free from plague and fever. 

12. The report of the special Pan American Railway committee on the subject- 
matter of the twelfth resolution, which concerns the Pan American Railway, is, by 
direction of the Secretary of State of the United States, herewith submitted to the 
honorable conference. 

13. On the subject matter of the thirteenth resolation, no action has been taken by 
the Government of the United States on account of the fact that the conference on the 
coffee industry suggested by that resolution has not been convened. 

14. In compliance with the fourteenth resolution, the Pan American committee of 
the United States considered the problems of fluctuations in exchange and a repoi't 
upon this subject was prepared under its direction. 

Receive, Mr. President and honorable delegates, the assurances of our most dis- 
tinguished consideration and highest respect. 

Henry White. 
E. H. Crowder. 
Lewis Nixon. 
J. B. Moore. 
Bernard Moses. 
L. C. Quintero. 
Paul S. Reinsch. 
David Kinley. 
July 12. 1910. 



REPORT OF THE ARGENTINE DELEGATION. 

His Excellency the President of the FoWth International American Conference: 

The delegation of the Argentine Republic to the Fourth International American 
Conference has the honor to submit the following report regarding the action of the 
Government of the Republic on the resolutions and conventions of the Third Con- 
ference, held at Rio de Janerio in Jaly, 1906. 

resolutions. 

I. The Argentine representatives in the Second Peace Conference at The Hague 
were authorized to adhere to the resolutions which might be adopted in the sense of 
promoting the adoption of the principle of arbitration. 

II. The Republic has organized the Pan-American committee to which resolution 
IV of the Third Conference refers. To that end and by decree of June 30, 1909, it 
organized said committee consisting of Drs. Mario Ruiz de los Llanos, Horacio Calderon, 
and Jacinto Cardenas, in order that they might move the approval of the resolutions 
adopted by the Third Conference and to furnish to the International Bureau of the 
American Republics all data which it might need for the preparation of its labors. 

III. The Argentine delegates to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague were 
authorized to consider the question of the compulsory collection of public debts and 
pecuniary claims, and they took part in the respective deliberations. 

IV. In the report which the Argentine delegation presented to the Third Conference, 
with respect to the part of the Republic in the construction of the Pan-American 
Railroad, the following statement was made: 

"That the extension to Quiaca of the railroad to Bolivia had already been con- 
tracted for by the Argentine Government; and the studies made of the Bolivian 
section, from La Quiaca to Tupiza, the completion of this section was indispensable 
and of great advantage." 

We have the satisfaction to state to the conference that the Government of the 
Republic has entirely finished the portion allotted it in the railroad program, the 
capital being connected with the northernmost boundary of the territory. 

V. The Republic has likewise complied with the recommendation made to the 
Governments that they should have prepared a study of the monetary system existing 
in each of the Republics, specified in resolution XIV, sending to the Bureau of the 
American Republics the respective data. 

conventions. 

Under date of May 16, 1907, the executive sent to the honorable congress a message 
relating to the convention on international law, signed at the Third Conference on 
August 23, 1906, requesting the approval of the following draft of a law: 

"Article 1. Let the convention signed at Rio de Janeiro, on August 23, 1906, by 
the delegates of the Argentine Republic and the other nations represented in the 



68 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, 

Third International American Conference, for the constitution of an international 
board of jurists, composed of one representative from each State, for the purpose of 
preparing a draft of a code of private international law, which shall govern the relations 
between the nations of America, and whose first meeting shall presently take place 
at the city of Rio de Janeiro, be approved." 

(The other articles are formal.) 

This draft is still under consideration by the honorable congress. 

VII. As far as concerns the other conventions concluded at the Third Conference, 
they were sent to Congress under date of June 18, 1909, accompanied by the following 
message : 

" To the honorable Congress: 

"The executive has the honor to submit to your honor the conventions which I 
inclose in certified copy, and which were signed by your delegates at the Third Inter- 
national American CorSerence convened at Rio de Janerio. 

' ' They are : 

"A convention fixing the status of naturalized citizens who again take up their 
residence in the country of their origin; 

"A convention on pecuniary claims; and 

"A convention on patents, designs, and industrial models, trade-marks and literary 
and artistic property. 

"Another convention adopted by the same conference, and relating to the meeting 
of a board of jurists charged with preparing the draft of codes of public and private 
international law, was already submitted for your approval under date of May 16, 1907, 
and since then has been pending your decision. The reason why that convention 
was sent you separately and prior to the others was because of the speed with which 
its fulfillment should have been accomplished in accordance with provisions, and 
the end for which it was destined. 

"The importance and propriety which these agreements have for the interests of 
the Republic and for the greater progi'ess of its relations with the countries of America, 
in consonance with the sentiments of fraternity which inspired said conference, will 
not escape your eminent sagacity. 

"Therefore, the executive refrains from entering upon considerations of this nature 
and refers to the report and pertinent inclosures of our delegation, copy inclosed, 
as well as to the other documents of the conference which the printed volume contains 
therein published and which is also inclosed. 

"In this sense, the executive asks of your honors that you may see fit to give your 
approval to said convention in the form of a draft of a law which he sends herewith." 

Of these conventions the one referring to the status of naturalized citizens who 
again take up then- residence in the country of their origin and the one referring to 
pecuniary claims have been approved by the chamber of deputies and await, in order 
to become laws, the final approval of the senate. 

So far as concerns the one relating to patents, trade-marks, and literary and artistic 
property, its approval has not been thought urgent because this point has been in- 
cluded in topic X of the program of the Fourth Conference. 

We greet your excellency with our distinguished consideration. 

Antonio Bermejo, President. 
Eduaedo L. Bidau. 
Manuel A. MoNTES DE Oca. 
Epipanio Portela. 
Carlos Rodriguez Larreta. 
Carlos Salas. 
Jose A. Terry. 
Estanislao S. Zeballos. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF BRAZIL. 

His Excellency the President of the Fourth International American Conference, Buenos 
Aires. 

Your Excellency: The delegation of Brazil has the honor to present to theFourth 
International American Conference the following report on the resolutions and con- 
ventions adopted by the Third Conference convened at Rio de Janeiro in July and 
August, 1906. 

The following were approved by the National Congress of Brazil: The resolution 
of August 23, 1906, on sanitary police (legislative decree No. 1864, January 9, 1908); 



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the convention of August 13, 1906, "Fixing the status of naturalized citizens who 
again take up their residence in the country of their origin " (legislative decree No. 
2115, October 8, 1909); and the convention of August 23, 1906, "Recommending the 
meeting of an international commission of jurists at Rio de Janeiro in 1907, for the 
purpose of preparing a code of private international law and another of public inter- 
national law which should govern the juriltic relations between the countries of 
America." (Legislative decree No. 1834, of Decemebr 7, 1907.) 

The meeting of the international commission of jurists covered by the convention 
of August 23, 1906, was postponed until May 21, 1911. 

There still await the approbation of the National Congress of Brazil: The resolution 
of August 13, 1906, "Reorganization of the International Bureau of the American 
Republics"; the resolution of August 13, 1906, "Establishing in the departments for 
foreign affairs of the American countries special committees charged with the duty 
of promoting the approval of the resolutions of the international American conferences' ' ; 
the convention of August 13, 1906, "Pecuniary claims"; the resolution of August 22, 
1906, "Practice of the liberal professions"; the convention of August 23, 1906, on 
"Trade-marks and literary and artistic property"; the resolutions of August 23, 1906, 
on "The Pan-American Railway"; and the resolution of August 23, 1906, "Urging the 
Governments to hold an international American conference at the city of Sao Paulo, 
Brazil, for the purpose of taking effective measures for the benefit of the coffee pro- 
ducers. " 

Concerning the matters relating to the resolutions of August 16 and 23, 1906 (Com- 
mercial Relations, Monetary System, and Sections of Commerce, Customs and Sta- 
tistics), the delegation of Brazil has the honor to present, as inclosures, for the con- 
sideration of the Fourth International American Conference, the following data, 
documents, reports, and publications: 

I. Development of the railroad system in Brazil up to June 30, 1910 (inclosure 
No. 1). » 

II. General movement of the mails of Brazil (inclosure No. 2) with copies of the 
postal regulations (inclosure No. 3). 

III. Telegraph systems of Brazil (inclosure No. 4) with the schedule of the stations 
of general delivery of telegrams (inclosure No. 5), and a graphic diagram of the receipts 
and expenses, number of telegrams, number of words, and length of telegraph lines 
(inclosure No. 6). 

IV. La Politique Mon^tiare du Brazil (inclosure No. 7), the report of Dr. Juan 
Pandia Calogeras; a study which the Third Conference in one of its resolutions 
recommended to the Governments of the American countries. 

V. Bulletin of commercial statistics of Brazil of 1908 and 1909 (inclosure No. 8). 
The delegation of Brazil has the honor to renew to your excellency, Mr. President 

of the Fourth International American Conference, the assurances of its most respectful 
consideration, 

DoMicio DA Gam A. 

Gastao da Cunha. 

Jose L. Almeida Nogueira. 

Olavo Bilac. 

Herculano de Freitas. 
Buenos Aires, July 14, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF CHILE. 

Messrs. Delegates to the Fourth International American Conference: 

Before entering upon a consideration of the matters relating to the fulfillment of 
Article III of the program of this conference, the delegation of Chile regards it as 
a primary and pleasing duty to renew to the Argentine Nation the testimonial already 
rendered by the high public authorities of Chile of appreciation for the transcendent 
fact in its patriotic annals which is commemorated in this present year. 

The most important political event of the nineteenth century undoubtedly was 
the emancipation of the American Continent, preceded, as it was, shortly before by 
the rise of the great Republic of the United States of America, the example of which 
was followed and its republican organization imitated by the nationalities estab- 
lished in the remainder of America. 

The second feature of the program under which the present Pan American Con-' 
ference begins its work has to do with the idea of commemorating what might be 
called the birth of the young American nationalities, by reason of the fact that this 
year sees the advent of their first centenary of independent life. 



70 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

Taking into consideration the circumstance that the celebration of an historical 
fact of such culminating importance coincides with the meeting of this conference 
in the capital of the Argentine Republic, the delegation of Chile proposes, as a means 
of strengthening its recollection, the following resolution: 

"That by joint effort of all the nations represented in this conference there be 
erected in the city of Buenos Aires a Citable edifice for the permanent exhibition 
of the products and manufactures of all of them under the name of Pan American 
Exposition of Products." 

In compliance with what is agreed upon in Article III of the program, the delega- 
tion of Chile now proceeds to lay before the honorable assembly the views suggested 
by the principal conventions and resolutions adopted in the Third International 
American Conference at Rio Janeiro in the year 1906. 

The conventions and resolutions of Rio Janeiro have been ratified by Chile. 

The conference of Rio Janeiro recommended the establishment of special sections 
dependent upon the minister of foreign affairs, and charged among other functions 
with the duty of promoting the adoption of the agreements made in the Pan American 
conferences. In compliance with this resolution, the Government of Chile, by 
decree of December 31, 1906, appointed a committee composed of Messrs. Joaquin 
Walker Martinez, Luis Antonio Vergara, Emilio Bello Codecido, Adolfo Guerrero, 
Anselmo Hevia Riquelme, and Alejandro Alvarez. 

On August 28, 1907, this committee issued a report on the conventions of the con- 
ference in question and also on the resolutions which Avere of a nature to be sub- 
mitted to the approval of the National Congress. In this report, which is appended 
to the present treaties (Appendix A), these conventions are examined and the con- 
clusion is reached that all of them should be approved by the legislative power, to 
which also is recommended the approval of the resolutions concerning the treaty on 
the exercise of the liberal professions concluded in Mexico, and the sanitary conven- 
tion previously agreed upon in Washington. 

The assent of both branches of the National Congress having been obtained, the 
President of the Republic, in accordance with constitutional procedure, approved 
those conventions on the following dates: 

By law of June 17, 1909, the convention dealing with the exercise of the liberal 
professions; 

By law of June 28, 1909, the convention establishing the status of naturalized 
citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin; 

By law of the same date, the convention relating to pecuniary claims; 

By law of July 2, 1909, the convention relating to patents and inventions, drawings 
and industrial models, trade-marks, and literary and artistic property; 

By law of July 3, 1909, the convention relating to a codification of international law; 

By law of July 23, 1909, the sanitary convention; 

This delegation is pleased to inform the representatives of the countries meeting 
in this assembly that all the conventions which were made a subject of agreement 
in the conference at Rio de Janeiro, have been made a part of the legislation of the 
Republic of Chile. 

CODIFICATION OP INTERNATIONAL LAW. 

In the judgment of this delegation it is manifestly desirable that the convention 
be put into practice which, provides for the creation of a commission of jurists, to be 
composed of one representative from each of the signatory countries, which shall 
prepare the plan of a code of public international law and of a code of private inter- 
national law which may regulate the relations among the States of America. This 
convention has been approved by a number of States sufficiently large to produce 
results in accordance with article 3. 

On the other hand, taking into consideration the importance of this subject, the 
delegation deems it advisable to have the conference indicate the bases or general 
lines along Avhich the international commission should proceed in the performance 
of its duty. 

We believe that the attention of the codifying commission ought to be centered 
upon those matters on which the States of America have shown themselves to be in 
agreement or on which the commission thinks that such agreement would not be 
difficult to secure. The conventions signed in the previous conferences and the 
results of the Congress of Private International Law held at Montevideo both furnish 
useful antecedents in this respect. A similar basis is offered by the conventions and 
resolutions of the Em-opean international congresses in which the States of America 
have been represented or to which they have given their approval. 

Outside of the commonly accepted division of international law into public and 
private, a division which the aforesaid convention adopts in its provision for the 



FOURTH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 71 

preparation of a plan of a code for each of these two branches, the delegation of Chile 
believes that it would be unquestionably advantageous for the conference to arrange 
for a separate code justified by the special character of the international questions 
that affect the relations of the American Continent. 

One very marked distinction in fact may be observed between international ques- 
tions common to all civilized nations, which consequently possess a world application, 
and those questions which are peculiar to this continent, either because they arise 
in America alone or because they relate solely to the American countries. 

To the diversity of problems arising out of conditions peculiar to each is due the 
existence of this second group of relations of an American character, without implying 
in general any antagonism between such relations and those which are common to all 
nations or any opposition whatever to the growing solidarity of all the States. 

In the work of codification it would be desirable to give especial attention to these 
numerous questions of a purely American sort in order that they may be dealt with 
suitably on our Continent, the particular reason being that since they have not arisen 
in similar form in Europe they have not been considered by the publicists from that 
point of view and accordingly have not been made the subject of conventions between 
the States or of resolutions on the part of international congresses. 

As examples of questions of that nature we might mention those which have to do 
"with problems of immigration; the investment of European capital in America; con- 
tracts for colonization; concessions of national property and public works, especially 
to foreign syndicates; nationality; rights of foreigners; diplomatic claims, especially 
pecuniary claims; civil wars and the many questions connected with them, such as 
the recognition of belligerency, neutrality, the right of asylum ; the rights and duties 
of adjoning states in areas claimed by two or more States that have not carried the 
delimitation of their frontiers to that point; the responsibility of States in cases that 
have not yet been taken sufficiently into consideration by international law, such as 
the acts of nomad tribes or those done in regions which on account of their geographical 
conditions lack properly constituted authorities; sovereignty over polar regions, etc. 

Starting from the fundamental distinction that we have made, the delegation 
submits to the conference the idea of recommending to the codifying commission 
that, in addition to arranging the subject matter in accordance with the recognized 
division into public international law and private international law, it divide its 
work into the two groups, the one of world application and the other of American 
application such as we have mentioned. 

The subject matter having an American application would be made up into a 
plan which, after ha^dng been brought to the knowledge of the several Governments 
and having been examined by them could be presented with their respective observa- 
tions for the approval of the next Pan-American conference, in accordance with 
article 3, including articles 2 and 7 of the convention of Rio de Janeiro on international 
law. 

The subject matter having a universal character would be made up into a separate 
plan that would follow a like course. But in view of the world importance of such 
subject matter, it would be desirable to submit the aforesaid plan, in the name of 
the American States that might have approved it. to the next Hague conference, 
which probably will meet before the coming American conference. In this fashion 
the American nations would make known to that congress their desire of arriving 
at a more complete juristic regulation of international relations. 

In conclusion, the delegation of Chile has the honor of submitting to the consideration 
of the conference the following 

PROPOSAL. 

The Fourth International American Conference resolves: 

To confirm the convention agreed upon at the third conference of Rio de Janeiro 
relative to the codification of international law by means of a commission of jurists 
and believes that in the performance of its duties it should arrange its work on the 
following bases: 

(a) In addition to keeping separate the usual di-visions of the subject into public 
international law and private international law, it should also subdivide its work 
into matters of universal application and of American application; 

(6) The matters of American application would be made up into a plan which, 
after having been brought to the knowledge and attention of the governments, could 
be presented for the approval of the next Pan American conference in accordance 
with Article III, paragraphs 2 and 7 of the convention of Rio de Janeiro; 

(c) The matters of universal character would be made up into a separate project 
that would follow a like course and it would be presented in the name of the American 
States which might have approved it to the next conference at The Hague. 



72 FOUKTH INTERNATIOIsTAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

PECUNIARY CLAIMS. 

Another of the conventions agreed to in Rio de Janeiro to which the delegation of 
Chile desires to call the attention of the conference, is that which deals with pecuniary 
claims. This subject, interesting in itself, is given a special place on the program, No. 
11. This convention sets forth that the treaty on pecuniary claims, signed at Mexico 
on January 30, 1902, is to remain in force, with exception of Article III, which is sup- 
pressed, until December 31, 1912, for both the nations that have ratified it and for 
those which may hereafter ratify it. In its first article that treaty of Mexico states 
that the high contracting parties obligate themselves to submit to arbitration all 
pecuniary claims that may be presented by their respective citizens and which can 
not be settled amicably by the diplomatic medium, provided always that such claims 
are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration. 

It is undoubtedly of great importance that the American States should duly regulate 
this matter which has given rise to so many conflicts on the Continent and which 
accordingly is of real American interest. 

The text of the first article of the Mexican convention above mentioned indicates 
the complex character of this subject. It comprises two principal points that may 
be set forth in the following terms: 

1. When has a State the right to make a claim in behalf of its citizens? 

2. What means are offered for the settlement of the question? 

The first point is by far the more important for the American States, understanding 
as they have done the necessity for determining it, and in fact they have made several 
conventions with European States or among themselves. 

It is not surprising that the international American conferences should have dealt 
especially with this matter. In its session of April 18, 1890, the first conference of 
this sort meeting in Washington made, contrary to the vote of the United States and 
with the abstention of Haiti, interesting declarations about the rights of foreigners. 

The Second Pan American Conference similarly believed it desirable to deal with 
this subject of the rights of foreigners. Taking as a basis a project presented by the 
delegation of Chile, and one from the delegations of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, 
and the Central American Republics, the following convention was agreed to in 
Mexico on January 29, 1902, by all the delegations with the exception of that of the 
United States: 

"Art. 1. Aliens shall enjoy all civil rights pertaining to citizens, and make use 
thereof in the substance, form, or procedure, and in the recourses which result there- 
from, under exactly the same terms as the said citizens, except as may be otherwise 
provided by the constitution of each country. 

"Art. 2. The States do not owe to, nor recognize in favor of, foreigners, any obliga- 
tions or responsibilities other than those established by their constitutions and laws 
in favor of their citizens. 

"Therefore, the States are not responsible for damages sustained by aliens through 
acts of rebels or individuals, and in general, for damages originating from fortuitous 
causes of any kind, considering as such the acts of war, whether civil or national; 
except in the case of failure on the part of the constituted authorities to comply with 
their duties. 

"Art. 3. Whenever an alien shall have claims or complaints of a ci\dl, criminal, or 
administrative order against a State or its citizens, he shall present his claim to a 
competent court of the country, and such claims shall not be made, through diplo- 
matic channels, except in the cases where there shall have been, on the part of the 
court, a manifest denial of justice, or unusual delay, or evident violation of the prin- 
ciples of international law." 

The delegation of Chile believes that it would be advantageous to have the con- 
vention of Rio de Janeiro on pecuniary claims, which, as above mentioned, is to be in 
force until December 31, 1912, renewed for an indefinite period; and believing that it 
should be understood in accordance with the principles of international law sanc- 
tioned in the convention approved at Mexico on the rights of aliens, would be gratified 
also were this latter convention to be ratified by all the countries of America. 

international bureau of AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

The last two conferences have given especial attention to the reorganization of the 
Bureau of the American Republics, which was founded by a resolution of the First 
Pan American Conference held in Washington. 

In the conference of Mexico a resolution was approved in which was laid down a 
plan of organization for the office on the fundamental basis of giving to it a truly inter- 
national character. Accordingly it is stated in Article I : 

"The International Bureau of the American Republics shall be under the manage- 
ment of a governing board which shall consist of the Secretary of State of the United 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 73 

States of America, who shall be its chairman, and the diplomatic representatives of 
all the governments represented in the bureau, and accredited to the Government 
of the United States of America." 

One of the topics proposed in the program of the conference at Rio de Janeiro was 
that of reorganizing the International Bureau of American Republics on a more per- 
manent basis and of enlarging the sphere of its activity. 

Following out these ideas, the conference at Rio approved an important resolution 
in which are set forth with greater precision the functions intrusted to the bureau 
and insured its duration for a period of 10 years, which may be continued indefinitely 
by others of like length, and internal regulations were drawn up also for the manage- 
ment of the office force. 

The program of the fourth conference takes up similarly the study of the actual 
organization of the bureau and of the recommendations relative to the extension of 
the term of its operation and to the improvements which might be introduced in it. 

On this point, availing ourselves of the same purposes that have inspired the agree- 
ments of previous conferences, tending to give to the office of the Bureau of the Amer- 
ican Republics all the necessary stimulus for the realization of the beneficent work 
of drawmg the countries of America more closely together, we are of opinion that, 
apart from the duties intrusted to it by those agreements, it ought to serve in general 
as a bureau of information regarding the commercial relations of the Republics of 
North, Central, and South America among themselves, so as to promote the inter- 
change of their products and secure by these practical methods the creation of new 
and permanent bonds of friendship. 

As a corollary of this primary object, we believe that preferential attention should 
be given to examining the question of the establishment of new means of communica- 
tion among those countries, with the idea of making them easier, more rapid, regular, 
and freq^uent, as well as to the assurance in a practical and effective form of lines of 
international navigation which may befit these purposes on the basis of the lowest 
freight charges for the products of international American interchange and of the 
greatest rapidity in communication that may have as its object the stimulation and 
development of commercial relations between two o^ more countries of the continent. 

The delegation of Chile has observed with interest the establishment of the Inter- 
national Bureau in its new and sumptuous building, the construction of which is due 
in great part to the munificence of the American citizen, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and 
it approves with pleasure the proposed resolution to testify to the gratitude of the 
American Republics. 

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. 

Another of the resolutions adopted in Rio de Janeiro refers to the promotion of com- 
mercial relations among the countries of the continent. On this point the program of 
the fourth conference includes a study of the bases on which may be attained the 
establishment of a more rapid service of communication by steamer for the carrying 
of mail, passengers, and cargo among the American Republics. 

Up to this time the Government of Chile has not been informed whether the Gov- 
ernments represented at the fourth conference or the International Bureau of the 
American Republics have made any progress in this matter or laid down the bases in 
question. 

Accordingly this delegation confines itself to the expression in general form of its 
feeling in regard to this point on the program and to the declaration with the support 
of certain facts which prove it that the Government of Chile is disposed to cooperate 
in the improvement of maritime communication which may bind the Republic with 
the countries of North, Central, and South America. 

This delegation does not ignore or exclude in any way the valuable contingent 
which the fleets of Europe bring to our means of transportation. 

It understands, of course, the advantage of having the American countries provide 
simultaneously with the fleets of Europe for the interchanges by sea that may concern 
them by the natural means of theii* own merchant marine. And it thinks that this 
program may be realized only if certain American countries, those to which nature 
has given an extensive seacoast, give a vigorous impulse to the increase of their mer- 
chant fleets. 

Beyond doubt the opinion held by the people and the Government of Chile is that 
our general destiny is bound to the increase of the national merchant marine. 

For a number of years the Government has granted to Chilean maritime navigation 
the open protection of no small subsidies. 

By praiseworthy individual initiative there has been constituted a great navigation 
enterprise,^ the South American Steamship Co., which plies along the entire west coast 
of the Pacific as far as Panama, and which at one time carried the commercial flag of 
Chile as far as San Francisco. 



74 FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

Accordingly there harf been established in the country a commercial fleet, the 
capacity of which in steam and sail, in vessels of more than a hundred tons, reached 
in the biennial period, 1907-8, 156,316 tons (Lloyd's Register). The tonnage of the 
United States in the same period was 4,511,928; of BrazG, 210,685; of the Argentine 
Republic, 130,071; of Uruguay, 57,447; of Mexico, 31,046; and of Peru, 26,242. ' 

Chile is thus the third among the American powers which with their merchant flag 
cross the seas extending from the United States to the Straits of Magellan. 

The favor, however, that the public authorities have shown to national navigation 
has appeared deficient; and at this present moment our congress is considering a bill 
presented by the executive which proposes a series of systematic measures tending 
forever to secure to the commercial marine of Chile a future of increasing prosperity. 

According to the purposes which it has in mind, and according to its traditional 
policy, the Government of Chile looks with favor upon such means as will extend the 
radius of lines already established and make the transportation of passengers more 
rapid and freight charges cheaper around the American Continent, and particularly 
along the South Pacific coast. 

The Third Pan American Conference, assembled in Rio de Janeiro, approved a 
resolution drawn as follows: 

"The Bureau of the American Republics shall be intrusted with the task of pre- 
paring a plan which shall contain the definitive bases of the contract which may be 
concluded with one or more steamship companies for the establishment of new lines 
between the countries." 

Chile would be greatly pleased if the means of transportation already established 
on the initiative of its own citizens were to aid efficaciously in securing this contract, 
and in promoting the progress of steam na^dgation among the countries of the New 
World, as is desired in the agreement of the Third and in the program of the Fourth 
Pan American Conferences. 

CtJSTOMS REGULATIONS. 

The conference at Rio de Janeiro intrusted to the Bureau of the American Repub- 
lics a study of the customs legislation of the countries, in order to procure an agree- 
ment upon uniformity in administrative procedure in America. 

In the program of all the International American Conferences there is an article 
dealing with the simplification and unification of customs procedure, the formalities 
of which, when they are not confined to measures indispensable for safeguarding 
legitimate collection of fiscal duties, constitute a serious obstacle to a commerce that 
needs liberty and rapidity in its operations. 

The formalities of customs procedure harmonize in general with the system of 
administration peculiar to each country, and accordingly should be regarded as 
belonging exclusively to its internal legislation. 

Certain recommendations of a general character, however, could be made in an 
international American conference with the object of incorporating them in the 
legislation of the countries of this continent so as to produce, so far as possible, a unifi- 
cation of customs formalities. 

Preceding the preparation of such proposals a compilation should be made of the 
laws and regiilations of each of the American Republics dealing with customs pro- 
cedure, and the data thus brought together should be studied and compared by persons 
possessed of technical or expert knowledge in these matters. 

To this end, the conference of Mexico recommended the holding of a customs con- 
gress composed of one or more delegates from each Government, who should be named 
from among customs administrators and presidents or members of chambers of com- 
merce. The customs congress met at New York in 1903, and, although made up of 
persons specially fitted for the study of these subjects, was not in a position to make 
detailed recommendations because of the lack of data and information furnished in 
advance. It approved certain conclusions of a very general character (Appendix B), 
almost all of which have been sanctioned in the 'legislation, regulations, or customs 
practice of Chile, and insisted, furthermore, on the necessity and urgency of carrying 
on the investigation indispensable to success in deliberations on customs matters in 
the future international conferences. 

Owing to the lack of preliminary investigation, the necessity for which had already 
been strongly urged, the third international American conference found itself unable 
to recommend the adoption of determinate measures which would serve to attain the 
beneficent result for which efforts have so long been made and agreed to the estab- 
lishment of a section of commerce, ciistoms, and statistics in the Bureau of the Amer- 
ican Republics, which by means of a permanent and adequate organization could 
make an investigation of the customs legislation and consular and statistical regula- 
tions of the Republics of America and prepare a report on the matter which should 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 75 

be presented in advance to the Governments of the countries represented in these 
conferences. 

The conference of Mexico recommended to the customs congi-ess an investigation of 
the means that might be adequate to establish in the Republics of America a common 
nomenclature of products and commodities, in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and 
French, which should be destined to serve as a basis for commercial statistics and to be 
adopted in the schedules, tariffs, and other customs laws of the American Republics. 
And in order to make the investigation which was to be carried on by the customs 
congress useful and complete it recommended to each of the GoA'ernments of the 
Republics of America that the higher administrative officials of customs examine the 
nomenclature or vocabulary made up by the International Bureau of the said Repub- 
lics, so that they might have in mind the remarks or corrections which the examina- 
tion of the vocabulary might suggest to them. 

In the judgment of the delegation of Chile it would be desirable for the international 
American conference assembled at this capital to insist upon the importance of the 
aforementioned work of investigation and to determine the proper means for realizing 
the aspu-ations iterated with so much regularity by former conferences, namely, that 
of rendering uniform the nomenclature of commodities, the basis of commercial sta- 
tistics, and the customs procedure in the Republics of the continent. 

PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY. 

The idea suggested by the previous Pan American conferences of binding the various 
Republics of the continent by rail was the subject of an interesting resolution adopted 
in the last conference at Rio de Janeiro. That resolution, among other things, 
provided — 

''That, with the object of contributing within the shortest possible time to the ter- 
mination of the Pan American Railway, each Republic, when giving its support to 
the constructions of lines destined to serve local interests, should follow, as far aa 
Ijossible, the intercontinental route," and the able report presented to that conference 
by the Hon. H. G. Davis, president of the permanent Pan American Railway commit- 
tee, in alluding to the part that concerns Chile in the realization of that Mea, men- 
tions, as projects conducing to the end in view, that of prolonging northward the 
longitudinal system of the Republic, that of constructing an inter-Andine line from 
Arica to La Paz and another of like nature so as to join Valparaiso with Buenos Aires, 
the execution of this latter project being, in the words of the Hon. Mr. Davis, "the 
end of a truly gigantic work desired for more than a half century." 

It is particularly pleasing for the delegation of Chile to state that the recommendation 
of the conference of Rio de Janeiro has been taken by the Government of the Republic 
under special consideration, and that so far as Chile is concerned with this great pro- 
posal of the previous conferences the work may be regarded as finished. 

In the message read by His Excellency the President of the Republic at the open- 
ing session of the National Congress on the 1st of last July is found the following 
declaration : 

"Between the cities of Puerto Montt and Tacna, which are 3,439 kilometers apart, 
1,795 kilometers have been united by railroad and 1,436 have been contracted for and 
are now under construction. Only the section between Zapiga and Arica, which 
comprises 210 kilometers, needs to be contracted for so that Tacna and Puerto Montt 
may be united. Within four years the city of Puerto Montt will be in communication 
by rail with the city of Pisagua." 

It is equally pleasing for this delegation to state that since the line from Arica to 
La Paz has been contracted for the work of construction is in active operation and that 
within two years the capital of Bolivia will be joined to the port of Arica. This rail- 
way will connect with the interior lines of Bolivia east and south, and will thus form 
part of the Pan American system. 

Last April the Governments oi the Argentine Republic and of Chile officially inau- 
gurated the railway that joins Buenos Aires with Valparaiso, thus realizing within the 
time desired the hope expressed in the report of the Hon. Mr. Davis. 

It ought to be added also that both Governments, inspired with the desire of serving 
the interests of the two Republics, are promoting the construction of other lines which, 
aside from the one inaugurated in April, will put the coasts of the Atlantic and of the 
Pacific into communication. 

In this regard, the Government of Chile has furthered the construction of the Trans- 
Andine line via Antuco to which it has granted a fiscal subsidy of £200,000 and a like 
stimulant is being given to the line called Pirihuaico. Both lines, situated more to 
the southward than that of Juncal, recently opened to traffic, are intended to cross 



76 FOURTH INTERNATIOISrAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

the Andes by more accessible passes and will supply the means for profitable com- 
mercial interchange. 

So as to know the details bearing upon the succinct statement preceding, the follow- 
ing appendices are added which are deposited in the Secretariat: 

(C) Map that shows the course of the Chilean Longitudinal Railway in connection 
with the Pan American system, and of the Trans-Andine lines from Arica to La Paz 
and from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires. 

(D) Text of the law authorizing the construction of the Longitudinal and the 
respective contracts. 

(E) Treatise presented to the First Pan American Scientific Congress, assembled 
at Santiago in January, 1909, and prepared by the Chilean engineer, Mr. Santiago 
Marin Vicuna "Regarding the Railways of Chile." 

Manuel Cruchaga. 
Anibal Cruz. 
Emilo Bello. 
B. Mathieu. 
Alejandro Alvarez. 
Buenos Aires, July 10, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF COLOMBIA. 

The undersigned, delegate of the Government of Colombia, has the honor to inform 
the president of the third committee that the Government of Colombia ratified the 
following conventions celebrated at the Third International American Conference 
of Rio de Janeiro: Pecuniary claims, ratified August 29, 1908; commission of jurists, 
ratified March 10, 1907; citizenship and naturalization, ratified August 29. 1908. 

R. Ancizar. 

Buenos Aires, July 22, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF COSTA RICA. 

Mr. Secretary General: 

In compliance with the requirements of Article III of the program of the Fourth 
International Conference, I have the honor to inform the Conference, on behalf of the 
Government of Costa Rica, concerning the matters to which it relates. 

By a duly authorized decree, dated October 26, 1908, the constitutional congress of 
the Republic approved the conventions signed at the Third International American 
Conference, which met at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906. 

In the spirit of those conventions, the Government of Costa Rica has taken cogni- 
zance of all the acts having a bearing upon them. 

As yet the Pan American committee, to which the respective resolution of the 
Third International Conference refers, has not been appointed. 

A section of the ministry of foreign relations has prepared to deal with these matters 
and therefore the necessity for constituting such committee has not been felt up to 
this time. 

In matters of customs and commercial statistics, we have in force smoothly 
running regulations which simplify the operations of warehouse removals and fix the 
various duties and processes for the entry, dispatch and clearance of various kinds of 
vessels and merchandise. I venture to append a copy of those regulations. The 
laws of Costa Rica make obligatory the use of manifests and consular invoices in 
harmony with the resolutions adopted in the previous international conferences. 

I deem any measure most useful which will tend to render the procediu"e in such 
matters uniform among the countries of commerce, since it will do much to extend 
reciprocal trade. 

Costa Rica is guided in the matter of sanitary police by the international conven- 
tion of Washington. It has put its precepts into practice, and is engaged actively in 
adopting every means for assuring the sanitation of its cities, and particularly of 
its ports. 

We are gratified to be able to say that in our Atlantic and Pacific ports there has not 
arisen in many years a single case of plague or yellow fever. 

In a cablegram that I have just received, statements in the press concerning the 
recent appearance of this latter disease in the Republic have been denied by the 
Government. 

As to marine sanitation, the greatest possible \T.gilance is observed. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 77 

The international sanitary commission, the medium of information for the American 
Reptiblics, as established by the Third Pan-American Conference, is in full operation. 

In December of last year the third international sanitary conference met at San 
Jos6, Costa Rica, and agreed upon certain measures of great importance in public 
hygiene. I have the pleasure to append a copy of these measures as published in 
the Official Gazette. 

My Government has continued to give attention to the construction of the Inter- 
continental Railway, ■with a view to increasing the lines which are to unite Costa Rica 
with the two countries adjoining on the north and south, since it presumes that, should 
the route planned be not exactly followed, the Pan-American Railroad will be carried 
on by the union of the sections in the various States. 

In that sense Costa Rica has advanced considerably, and the portion of the railway 
to the Pacific that remains to complete the Interoceanic Railway, will shortly be fin- 
ished. This will cause the section in question to be utilized as a part of the Pan 
American, by extending the branch from Punta Arenas to the north as far as the fron- 
tier of Nicaragua, or the other route will be adopted whenever the Guapiles Railroad 
is constructed on the Atlantic side as far as the eastern boundary of the country last 
named. The line from Limon to the boundary of Panama is progressing rapidly. 

When this subdivision is taken up especially, I shall have the honor to present a 
complete report on the railroads existing in the country, with precise mention of the 
sections that remain to be constructed and of their possible cost and completion. 

In Costa Rica there is a law covering the property rights in mercantile and industrial 
inventions and a regulation for the registration of trade-marks, dated September 11, 
1896. The law fixes the term of 20 years as the duration of the right to the use of an 
invention. 

The convention of Rio de Janeiro in part changes legal principles, but as it has not 
been possible to carry these provisions into effect in the majority of our countries, we 
have not tried to harmonize our laws with the conventions. 

On account of its great importance at present, this is a matter that demands especial 
study for the purpose of reaching conclusions equitable to all the nations. 

Costa Rica has not had any diplomatic claim for damages and injuries caused to 
foreign citizens or corporations, and it is to be hoped that it never will haA^e any. For 
this reason there has been no necessity of adhering to the treaties on pecuniary claims 
signed in Mexico in 1902 and extended in Rio de Janeiro in 1906 . In any event we con- 
sider its extension very proper, but it would be necessary to make express mention 
in the new convention of the principle accepted at the Second Conference, and regard- 
ing the rights of foreigners, to the effect that resort shall not be had to the arbitral 
claims tribunal unless all the judicial remedies of the country against which the claim 
is made shall first have been exhausted and that there shall have been on the part of 
the courts a manifest denial of justice or an abnormal delay or an evident violation of 
the principles of international law. 

It is a matter of respect due to the institutions and to the administration of justice 
in our countries, and it is an equitable measiu-e as well, not to place the foreigner on 
a better footing than that vouchsafed our own citizens by creating a special jurisdic- 
tion for his claims. 

I believe that I have reported upon the principal questions proposed, and I have 
the honor, your excellency, to submit myself with the assurance of my most distin- 
guished consideration. 

Alfredo Volio. 

Buenos Aires, July 16, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA. 

Mr. President: In accordance with the provisions of the third topic of the program 
of the Fourth International Conference of the American Republics, the Cuban dele- 
gation, undersigned, have the honor to submit the following memorandum relative 
to the action of the Government of the Republic upon the resolutions and conventions 
of the third conference held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906. 

Four conventions were signed as follows: 

1. Fixing the status of naturalized citizens who again take up their residence in the 
country of origin. 

2. Pecuniary claims. 

3. Patents of invention, designs, and industrial models, trade-marks, and literary 
and artistic property. 

4. The codification of international law. 



78 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

The first has not yet been ratified, because its text was in contradiction, in the 
judgment of our Government, with the provisions of the Constitution. 

The convention signed August 13, 1906, provides as follows: 

"Art. I. If a naturalized citizen, a native of any of the countries signing the present 
convention, and naturalized in another, shall again take up his residence in his native 
country without the intention of returning to the country in which he has been 
naturalized, he will be considered as having reassumed his original citizenship, and 
as having renounced the citizenship acquired by the said naturalization." 

This article comprises not only the citizen already naturalized, but also those who 
may become naturalized subsequently. 

' ' Art. II . The intention not to return will be presumed to exist when the naturalized 
person shall have resided in his native country for more than two years. But this 
presumption may be destroyed by evidence to the contrary." 

Article VII of the constitution of the Republic of Cuba provides: 

"Cuban nationality is lost: 
******* 

"4. In cases of naturalized Cubans, by their residence for five years continuously 
in the country of origin, except when serving an office of fulfilling a commission of the 
Government of the Republic." 

The Cuban delegation, as well as others, commented in the sixth committee of the 
conference at Rio, which had this matter in charge, upon the shortness of the time; 
that is, the period of two years. But, such term having already been set as a prece- 
dent in several treaties with the United States, and with other powers, the third con- 
ference adopted it in the final convention. 

The Government of Cuba understood that Article VII, clause 4, of the constitution, 
already cited, precludes the ratification of said convention, being in conflict with 
Article II thereof, and therefore it refrained from recommending its ratification. 

The second of the conventions signed at Rio de Janeiro declares in force until 
December 31, 1912, the treaty upon Pecuniary Claims, signed at Mexico January 30, 
1902, both for the nations which had already agreed to it, as well as for those which 
might ratify it thereafter, abolishing Article III, which declared that said convention 
was obligatory only on the States which might have subscribed the convention for 
the pacific settlement of international disputes signed at the Hague in 1899, and for 
those States which should ratify the protocol adopted at the said second conference 
by the countries there represented upon adhesion to the conventions of the Hague. 

This convention was signed at Rio de Janeiro August 13, 1906, and was approved by 
the Government of Cuba March 17, 1908. 

The third convention signed at Rio de Janeiro relates to patents of invention, 
drawings, and industrial models, trade-marks, and literary and artistic property, and 
was concluded August 23, 1906. 

The signatory nations of this convention adopted the treaties signed at the Second 
International Conference at Mexico, January 27, 1902, with the modifications set forth 
in the later convention. 

The Republic of Cuba, on January 10, 1906, adhered to the treaty on patents of 
invention, drawings and industrial models, and trade-marks, signed at Mexico during 
the second conference, but has not yet adhered to the convention on literary and artis- 
tic property, signed on the same date, because the said treaty (of Rio) declares by 
Article I that the signatory nations adopt, spontaneously, the two treaties of Mexico 
before mentioned, both relating to patents and trade-marks and the one relating to 
literary and artistic property, and Cuba had already adhered to the former. It has not 
been able, therefore, to recommend the adoption of the aforesaid convention of Rio 
de Janeiro. 

The fourth convention, signed at Rio de Janeiro on August 23. 1906, provides for the 
appointment of an international commission of jurists, composed of one representative 
from each of the signatory States, selected by their respective Governments. This 
commission was to be organized for the preparation of a draft of a code of private 
international law and one of public international law which should regulate the rela- 
tions between the nations of America. The Republic of Cuba has not as yet ratified 
this convention. 

Besides the aforesaid conventions, the conference at Rio de Janeiro adopted the 
following resolutions: Arbitration; the reorganization of the International Bureau of the 
American Republics ; building for the International Bureau of the American Rep\iblics ; 
special divisions in the International Bureau; section of commerce, customs, and sta- 
tistics; liberal professions; public debts; sanitary police; intercontinental railway; 
commercial relations; future conferences; monetary system; natural resources; coffee 
conference. 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 79 

REORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS AND 
CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW BUILDING FOR THE BUREAU. 

The Government of Cuba has contributed with its quota to the construction of the 
above-mentioned building, and has also accepted the increase plan for the support 
of said bureau, beginning July 1, 1908, to satisfy the new amount. 

ARBITRATION. 

In accordance with the resolution of the conference of Rio de Janeiro relative to 
this important subject, Cuba gave appropriate instructions to its delegates to the 
Second Conference at The Hague. 

PUBLIC DEBTS. 

Likewise, the instructions suggested by the Third Pan-American Conference at Rio 
de Janeiro concerning this subject were given to said delegates to the Second Hague 
Conference. 

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. 

The recommendations which are referred to the Governments by this resolution are: 

1. That agreements be promoted between the signatory governments to stimulate 
as much' as possible rapid railway communications, steamship and telegraph lines, 
and post conventions for the carriage of samples. 

2. That good connections be made for railway and telegraphic lines. 

3. That goods in transit over the routes of communication in any country shall pay 
only for the services rendered by the adequate installations of the ports and roads 
passed over, on the same scale as such services are paid for by goods destined for the 
consumption of the country over whose territory the transit is effected. 

The Government of the Republic of Cuba has taken under consideration these 
recommendations and will receive with special satisfaction any agreements which 
may be proposed to it in that sense. As to the subjects mentioned in the second and 
third paragraphs above, it is a pleasure to us to make known that the laws and regu- 
lations in force concerning railways, telegraphs, and merchandise in transit, are in 
harmony with said recommendations. 

LIBERAL PROFESSIONS. 

The resolution of the conference at Rio de Janeiro, relative to this matter, confines 
itself to confirming integrally the treaty upon the practice of the liberal professions, 
signed on January 28, 1902, by the Second Conference held in Mexico and to recom- 
mending its adoption and ratification. 

The Government of Cuba has not adhered to said treaty, it being incompatible in 
some of its provisions with existing legislation on the subject, which has not yet been 
amended, the adoption of the aforesaid convention being now looked into by the 
educational boards. 

SANITARY POLICE. 

The Republic of Cuba adhered to the sanitary convention of Washington, and sent 
delegates to the Third Sanitary Conference held in Mexico, December, 1907, and to 
that of San Jos6, Costa Rica, of 1909. Cuba has complied, therefore, as far as it is 
concerned, with the recommendations of this resolution. 

PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY. 

The Republic of Cuba having no direct and immediate interest in the construction 
of this important line, it is not incumbent upon it to take any action upon this subject. 

MEETING OF THE FOURTH PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE. 

The governing board of the International Bureau of the American Republics, having 
been authorized to designate the place of meeting for the Fourth International Amer- 
ican Conference, selected, in January, 1908, the city of Buenos Aires. The Govern- 
ment of Cuba hastened to express its acquiescence, appointed as representatives the 
undersigned delegates. 



80 FOURTH IXTERXATIOXAL COXFERENCE OF AMEEICAX STATES. 

COFFEE PRODUCTION. 

The resolution of the Rio de Janeiro conference concerning this interesting branch 
of the resources of several nations represented therein, recommended to the respective 
Governments the holding of an international American conference to adopt eflBcacious 
measures for the benefit of coffee products, designating the city of Sao Paulo, in the 
United States of Brazil, for the meeting of the conference. The Government of Cuba 
has been and is disposed to consider with special interest the advisability of being 
represented in said conference, if such conference be deemed necessary by the Gov- 
ernments most directly interested in this subject. 

MONETARY SYSTEMS. 

The resolution on this subject recommends the preparation of detailed reports upcn 
the monetary systems and their history of the several nations represented in the con- 
ference, and upon the fluctuations of the type of exchange in the past 20 years, as 
well as the preparation of tables showing the influence of said fluctuations on com- 
merce and industrial development; said reports to be forwarded to the International 
Bureau of the American Republics for the preparation of a resume, and for publica- 
tion and distribution among the several Governments at least six months before the 
meeting of the present conference. 

The department of state of the Republic of Cuba, opportunely acquainted the 
department of the treasury with this resolution in order that it might begin the prepa- 
ration of this material, but it could not be prepared by the date indicated. It will 
however be transmitted to the International Bureau of the American Republics for 
the ultimate action contemplated. 

PAN AMERICAN COMMITTEE. 

In accordance with the respective resolution, the Government of the Republic of 
Cuba appointed the following committees by decree dated July 20, 1908: Dr. Leopoldo 
Berriel, lawyer and rector of the University of Habana; Dr. Leopoldo Cancio, lawyer 
and professor of the University of Havana; Dr. Jose; Lorenzo Castellanos, lawyer, ex- 
representative and ex-secretary of the President; Dr. Mario Garria Kholy, lawyer, 
member of the advisory board, at present secretary of public instruction; Gen. Carlos 
Garcia Velez, formerlj^ envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Cuba 
in Mexico and in Washington, and at present appointed in like capacity to the Argen- 
tine Republic; Dr. Jose Antonio Gonzales Lanuza, lawyer, professor of the University 
of Havana, and formerly delegate of Cuba to the Third International American Con- 
ference; Licenciado Rafael Montoro, lawyer, envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- 
potentiary at London, member of the advisory board, and delegate to the Third 
International American Conference; Dr. Erasmo Regueiferos, lawyer, and member 
of the advisoiy board; Dr. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, lawj^er, senator, professor 
of the University/ of Havana, and delegate to the Second International Peace Confer-- 
ence at The Hague; Dr. Manuel Sanguilly, lawyer, senator, and delegate t(; the Second 
International Peace Conference at The Hague — at present secretary of state of the 
Republic; Senor Manuel Marques Stu'ling, ex-charge d'affaires in the Ai-gentine Re- 
public and at present minister to Brazil; and Dr. Fernando Sanchez de Fuentes y 
Pelaez, lawyer, professor of the University of Havana, secretary of the delegation to 
the Second Peace Conference at The Hague. 

We reiterate to your excellency the assm-ance of our most distinguished considera- 
tion. 

Carlos GarcIa Velez. 

Rafael Montoro. 

GONZALO de QuESADA. 

Antonio Gonzalo Perez. 
Jose M. Caebonell, 
Buenos Aires, July 14, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 

Mr. President: In pursuance of Article III of the program of the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, of which you are the worthy president, I have the 
honor to inform your excellency concerning the execution on the part of the Govern- 
ment of the Dominican Republic of the resolutions and conventions of the Third 
International American Conference held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906. 



POUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 81 

Jfbji. In pursuance of the recommendation contained in the resolution of the Third 
Conference of Rio de Janeiro, dated August 22, 1906, the Dominican Republic an- 
nounced through its delegate to the Second International Peace Conference at The 
Hague, at the session of October 16, 1907, to be in favor of the proposition made by the 
delegation of the United States of America, with an amendment to the effect that arbi- 
tration should be obligatory and reciprocal, in which there should be embraced every 
claim of a pecuniary nature, including those for damages and injuries, and that the 
judgment should be rendered in accordance with justice instead of equity. 

2. In accordance with the resolution of the Third Conference, above referred to of 
August 7, 1906, the Dominican Government gave to the delegates it sent to the Second 
Peace Conference at The Hague, instructions looking to the rendering the principle 
of arbitration practical, who were the only ones to assert themselves m favor of the 
principle of obligatory arbitration without reserve. Such is the faith that the Domini- 
can Republic has in the efficacy of justice as a fundamental principle. 

3. In fulfillment of the convention concluded at the third conference of Rio de 
Janeiro on August 23, 1906, and relating to the meeting in that city of an international 
commission of jurists charged with drafting a project of code of public international 
law and one of private international law which should govern the relations between 
the nations of America, the undersigned has had the honor to have been designated 
by the Dominican Government on March 12, 1909, to represent the Dominican Repub- 
lic on said commission. 

4. Also, and by decree of January 21, 1910, the Pan American committee has been 
organized to which the resolution of the third conference of Rio de Janeiro of August 
13, 1906, refers. Said committee is composed of seven members, and in addition to 
the duties imposed by -the Rio resolution, it has that of furthering the approval of the 
conventions and other agreements signed by the Dominican Republic at the Second 
International Peace Conference at The Hague. 

5. The other conventions and resolutions are still awaiting approval, and no doubt 
they will be approved before the end of the present year. This circumstance pre- 
vented the Dominican Republic from participating in the Fourth International 
Conference of San Jose, Costa Rica. 

I avail myself of this opportunity to assure your excellency of my most distinguished 
consideration. 
Buenos Aires, July 22, 1910. 

Amerigo Lugo. 
To His Excellency Antonio Bermejo, 

President of the Fourth International American Conference, Buenos Aires. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF ECUADOR. 

Buenos Aires, July 25, 1910. 
Mr. Secretary op the Third Committee: For my part, with reference to Chap- 
ter III of the present international conference, my report is limited to stating that 
the resolutions and conventions of the third conference were approved by the legis- 
lature of Ecuador in November, 1909. As to the action of the Government in puttmg 
them in force, it seems that no special executive decree has yet been issued, inasmuch 
as, without doubt, conventions constitutionally approved are laws of the Republic 
and will not for that reason fail to be observed. 
With assurances of my distinguished consideration, I am, Mr. Secretary, 
Your obedient servant, 

Alejandro Cardenas. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OP GUATEMALA. 

Mr. President and Delegates to the Fourth International Pan-American Conference: 

In accordance with the provisions of Article III of the program, the delegation of 
Guatemala has the honor to submit for your distinguished consideration a succiact 
report concerning the action its Government has taken with respect to the resolutions 
and conventions of the third conference held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906. 

The convention that fixes the status of (naturalized) citizens who again take up 
their residence in the country of their origin, was ratified by Guatemala, April 20, 
1907, and Guatemala had the satisfaction of being the first of the American nations 
to do so. 

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82 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

The convention on pecuniary claims was also ratified on April 20, 1907, it being 
proper to note that Guatemala had, in due course, ratified the treaty of Mexico, to 
which this convention refers. 

On April 19, 1907, Guatemala ratified the convention on international law, having 
named in due time the person who should represent her on the international com- 
mission of jurists created by Article I of said instrument. 

The convention on patents, designs, and industrial models and trade-marks, and 
commercial, literary, and artistic property was ratified on April 19, 1907, the four 
conventions mentioned above being ratified anew on February 15, 1909. 

In order to properly fulfill the resolutions adopted at the third conference, the 
Government of Guatemala has taken all the necessary steps, as we shall endeavor to 
show, enumerating the principal ones. 

As it has not yet been possible to create a special Pan American section in the 
ministry for foreign affairs, what refers to this important matter is at present treated 
in one of the bureaus which form part of the department above mentioned. 

For the erection of the building of the International Bureau of the American 
Republics in Washington our Government gladly contributed its quota. 

Few questions occupy the attention of the Guatemalan authorities more or with 
greater reason than the maintenance and regulation of an efficacious sanitary police, 
which at the same time that it protects the nations who maintain commercial rela- 
tions with us, assures the health and welfare of the inhabitants. With this end in 
view we were not only among the first to adhere to the International Sanitary Con- 
vention of Washington and to send our representatives to the congresses that were 
held in Mexico in 1907 and in Costa Rica in 1909, approving the resolutions adopted 
by these learned assemblies, but the following measures tending to the same end 
have been taken: The sanitation of the Guatemalan-Atlantic coast, especially Puerto 
Barrios, undertaken and carried out by the railroad company of Guatemala; the 
creation of a special board of health provided with all kinds of supplies, for the pur- 
pose of seconding and maintaining the works carried on in said zone; the issuance 
of a sanitary code, the strict enforcement whereof is intrusted to a technical board 
of public health and hygiene, the members of which are invested with authority; 
the establishment of an institution of animal vaccine, and of a Pasteur institute, and 
several other foundations of a philanthropic character, which, like the "Gota de 
Leche" and the "Home for the Aged and Convalescent," are destined to better the 
general hygienic conditions, and especially those of the coasts. 

The efficacy of the measures enumerated is evidenced by the fact that in the 
Republic of Guatemala not a single case of yellow fever has appeared since 1906. 

Coffee being the principal product of export of Guatemala and many other countries 
of America, our Government would view with very special pleasure if the meeting 
could be effected of the international American conference relating to this matter, 
to which the respective resolution refers, which was approved by the conference of 
Rio de Janeiro and proposed by the Guatemalan delegate to that assembly. 

Without prejudice of making a detailed report to the Pan Amerian Railway com- 
mittee concerning the development and increase of the railroad lines which have 
been constructed in Guatemala during the last decade, it is very pleasing to this 
delegation to tell you in accordance with the contracts entered into with the Central 
Railway Co., on the one hand, and with the Guatemala Railway Co., on the other, 
within two years Guatemala will have completed its portion of the railroad, uniting 
it by rail with the bordering Republics of Mexico and Salvador. In order to connect 
with the railroad systems of the first of said nations, we only lack 25 miles, which will 
be completed about the beginning of next year. 

It is an honor for the delegation of Guatemala to offer to the president and dele- 
gates the assurance of their highest and most distinguished consideration. 

Luis Toledo Herrarte, 

For the Delegation of Guatemala . 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF HONDURAS. 

In compliance with Article III of the program approved by the governing board 
of the International Union of the American Republics, I have the honor to inform 
the Fourth Pan-American Conference that Honduras has approved the conventions 
and resolutions of the Third Conference and has endeavored to carry out its recom- 
mendations. 

Our commercial relations with the other nations of America continue to improve 
from day to day, thanks to the efficient protection given by my Government to all 
enterprises that tend to draw closer together the countries of the continent, either by 



FOURTH INTERNATIOlSrAL CONPERElSrCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 83 

granting them subventions or franchises and concessions which contribute to their 
support. 

The Government of Honduras has given especial attention to the question of sani- 
tation, and I am pleased to state that it was not only represented in the sanitary 
cono;resses held in the capitals of Mexico and Honduras, but that, assisted by the 
Sanitary Board of New Orleans and by the Vaccination Institute of San Salvador, 
it has prevented the spread of yellow fever and of smallpox which, in an epidemic 
character, invaded the country from the western frontier. 

No work has been completed concerning railroad lines that could be utilized for 
the Pan-American Railway, because the small lines that are in operation, or under 
construction, are all on the Atlantic side; but the Government is disposed to grant 
concessions and franchises to facilitate the construction of these lines on the Pacific 
coast, and I have no doubt that requests will be made it to this end by the Salva- 
doran railroads now approaching the frontier of Honduras. 

My Government, which faithfully observes the pacts signed by its delegates, will 
do all in its power to carry out the provisions which proceed from this conference, 
because it is convinced that said provisions all tend to the improvement of the con- 
ditions of life of the great American family. 

Luis Lazo A., 
Delegate for Honduras. 

Buenos Aires, July 16, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF MEXICO. 

At the Third International American Conference 4 conventions and 14 resolutions 
were signed. 

The Government of the United Mexican States has decreed that, in so far as possible 
within the limits of the constitutional institutions of the country, the measures necessary 
in order that said pacts — some of them real treaties and others conventions ad-referen- 
dum — should have full force and effect; and if for any reason it has not been possible 
to put them in force the Government itself has joined in the celebration of special 
treaties with one or more of the American nations, so as to make effective in this 
manner the fundamental principles by which the three former conferences and the 
present one have been inspired. 

Conventions. 

naturalization — pecuniary claims. 

The conventions on naturalization and claims for injuries and pecuniary damages 
have been approved by the senate, notwithstanding that, regarding the first, the 
promulgation of the decree relating thereto has remained pending, since it was thought 
proper to await the result of the general revision which it is proposed to bring about 
by Mexican legislation concerning naturalization and the rights of foreigners. 

conrpicATioN. 

As to the codification of international American law, Mexico appointed in due 
course its representative to form part of the commission of jurists which ia to study 
the projects of future codes, but the meeting of this commission, as is known, has 
been postponed to a future date. 

PATENTS — ^TRADE-MARKS — INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY. 

The conventions on artistic and literary property, and on patents of invention, 
drawings, industrial models, and trade-marks, were limited to the adoption, with 
some modification, of the treaties signed ad referendum at the Second Conference 
on January 27, 1902, for which reason the Government of the United Mexican States 
has not been able to enact any measure relating to the same, inasmuch as it did 
not approve the aforesaid treaties of 1902. 

Resolutions. 

arbitration. 

Mexico has always been and is now in favor of arbitration, believing that same, 
though different from any other recourse, pacific or violent, is the only one that 
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84 FOURTH INTERNATIONAXi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

The resolution on this subject, signed in Rio de Janeiro August 7, 1906, was limited 
to the ratification of the principle of arbitration, and to recommending that in the 
Second Conference of The Hague, then about to convene, a general convention- 
should be adopted which would be accepted and enforced by all the nations. 

As in said peace conference only the recommendation was made, without con- 
cluding a treaty, the United Mexican States have resorted to the celebration of special 
conventions, and in this sense have concluded recently a general treaty of arbitra- 
tion with the United States of America. 

On the other hand, and even though the necessary requisites for placing it in full 
effect were not complied with by the signatory nations, the arbitration celebrated 
at the Second International American Conference was approved by the Senate of 
the United Mexican States. 

REORGANIZATION OF THE BUREAU OP AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

The resolution of the Third Conference concerning the reorganization of the Inter- 
national Bureau of the American Republics in Washington is very interesting. 

Experience has proved the difficulty in arriving at an effective and sudden agree- 
ment among the American nations to put in force the conventions and resolutions 
of former assemblies. 

Up to within a few months, for example, the convention of August 13, 1906, con- 
cluded between 19 nations in Rio de Janeiro, on a subject as important as that of 
extending to December 31, 1912, with the exception of article 3, the period of duration 
of the treaty which was signed at the second conference on January 30, 1902, on 
claims for injuries and pecuniary damages, had not been ratified by the United Mexi- 
can States, by the United States of America, and by the Republics of Colombia, 
Guatemala, and Nicaragua. 

It is, therefore, quite necessary that the means of rendering effective the agree- 
ments of the Pan American conferences be sought. 

From that point of view, the International Bureau in Washington can play a very 
important part. 

Among the objects that article 1 of the resolution of August 13, 1906, signed in the 
Third Conference, assigns to said bureau is "to assist in obtaining the ratification of 
the resolutions and conventions adopted by the conferences." 

This rule, apparently so simple, covers a series of problems from the form in which 
the bureau should give that assistance to the manner in which it should take measures 
binding on the signatory nations, and it is to be hoped that the present conference 
will formulate some bases concerning this point. 

BUILDING FOR BUREAU. 

Concerning the building intended for the bureau in question, Mexico has contrib- 
uted with the sum of 25,352.84 pesos, equal to 112,676.42, which was the quota 
assigned to it. 

COMMITTEES DEPENDING ON THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS. 

At the present time the committee connected with the department of foreign rela- 
tions, which should furnish to the Bureau of the American Republics the data that 
the latter needs in accordance with the resolution signed in Rio de Janeiro, is 
constituted. 

SECTION OF COMMERCE IN THE BUREAU OP THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

Likewise there should be sent to said bureau everything relating to customs legis- 
lation, consular rules and regulations, and commercial statistics. 

COMPULSORY COLLECTION OF PUBLIC DEBTS. 

The resolution on the compulsory collection of public debts was confined to recom- 
mending that the American nations should submit the case to the Second Peace 
Conference at The Hague, and Mexico complied by sending its representatives. 

LIBERAL PROFESSIONS. 

The resolution concerning the exercise of the liberal professions was restricted to 
a confirmation of the treaty of January 28, 1902, which was not ratified by Mexico. 



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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. 

The resolution on the development of the commercial relations among the Ameri- 
can Republics embraced two points: 

(1) That of the exemption from duties of merchandise in transit, and (2) that of 
contracts with navigation, railway and telegraph lines. 

As to exemption from duties the Government of Me:^ico has not adhered to the 
resolution, because it would require a complete change in the present fiscal organi- 
zation of the country; and as to the special contracts referred to it is to be borne in 
mind that the national railway lines run through all the territory of the Republic 
fi'om the frontier of the United States of America to that of Guatemala, and from the 
ports of the Gulf of Mexico to those of the Pacific, without taking into account the 
lines that are under construction. 

On the other hand, it is hoped that there will be made known the bases that the 
Bureau of the American Republics may formulate, in order that the Mexican Govern- 
ment may decide the form in which easier maritime communications with South 
America may be secured, now that it has established at the present time communica- 
tions of importance with a part of South America, with Central America, and with the 
United States of America. 

FUTURE CONFERENCES. 

The United Mexican States have complied by sending its delegation to this con- 
ference, as well as the publications and laws of the different branches of public ad- 
ministration, which remain at the disposal of the said Pan American assembly. 

commercial'resources. 

As to natural resources the report of the International Bureau of the American 
Republics is awaited, and the resolutions of the conference on this subject, held in 
Washington, should be considered. 

SANITARY bureaus AND QUARANTINE — ^PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY. 

Concerning the Pan American Railway and the sanitary police, as the present 
program, in topics VI and IX, refers to the same subject, the delegation will make 
its report in the respective committees. 

COFFEE INDUSTRY. 

Mexico has not received an invitation from other Governments to the conference 
which it was proposed to hold in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the purpose of encouraging the 
coffee industry. 

MONETARY SYSTEMS. 

As to the report on the monetary systems of the United Mexican States, the dele- 
gation submits it to the conference as an appendix to this general report. 

V. Salado Alvarez, Chairman. 

Lufs Perez Verdia. 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza. 

Roberto Esteva Ruiz. 
Buenos Aires, July 21, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF NICARAGUA. 

Honorable Delegates of the Fourth International American Conference: 

In accordance with Article III of the program of this conference, the delegation of 
Nicaragua has the honor to report to you the steps taken by its Government upon the 
resolutions and conventions of the third conference convened at Rio de Janeiro in 
July, 1906. 

Nicaragua has given special attention to the execution of those resolutions and has 
been among the first to ratify the conventions that demand that requisite. The 
national legislative assembly for which it is proper under the constitution and local 
laws of the State to ratify international treaties and conventions, gave, on February 
20, 1908, its approval, in Sue coui'se communicated to the department of foreign affairs 
of Brazil and to the International Bureau of the American Republics, to the first, 
second, and fourth conventions, concluded at Rio Janeiro, on naturalization, pecu- 



86 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

niary claims, and patents, designs and industrial models, trade-marks, and literary and 
artistic property. 

The study of numerous and important internal matters of the country has precluded 
the legislative assembly of Nicaragua until the present, from examining with a ^•iew 
to approval the third of the conventions of Rio de Janeiro upon the formation of a code 
of public and private international law. Nevertheless, the Government, knowing 
that this approval will not long be delayed, when circumstances permit its study by 
the legislative body which had formerly approved the treaty, made in the conference 
at Mexico, has already named its representatives on the international commission of 
jurists which should draft it. It is not to be doubted that in the coming legislature 
this convention will be ratified, and I do not think it rash to assert from now on there 
will be no obstacle to Nicaragua's being represented on that commission, whose 
meeting, as is known, has been proposed. 

The Government of Nicaragua understanding the usefulness and the benefit of one 
of the most important recommendations made to the governments represented at the 
third conference, which is that of August 13, 1906, for the establishment of committees 
subordinate to the ministry of foreign affairs, charged with promoting the approval of 
the resolutions adopted by the International American Conference and to fm-nish to 
the International Bureau of Washington the data needed for the preparation of its 
labors, organized, by resolutions of May 2 and October 6, 1909, the aforesaid committee 
presided over by the assistant secretary of foreign affairs and subordinate to that 
department. The internal troubles of the country have not permitted the committee 
to occupy itself with all the industry desirable to the discharge of its duty, so that its 
labors, in the short time that it has been organized, have been compelled to be very 
limited and the report of them has served me as the principal basis for the present. 

Concerning the recommendations for the reorganization of the International Biu-eau 
of the American Republics, and for the establishment of a section of commerce, 
customs, and commercial statistics between the American nations, the International 
Bureau of Washington will fiKnish better and more concrete information. The action 
of the Government of Nicaragua has been limited to its participation in the main- 
tenance "of said bureau, to instructions communicated to the administrative offices 
of the country to cooperate in the best possible manner for the important pmrposes 
of such a useful institution, and to furnish to the bureau in Washington all the infor- 
mation it may request, as well as that which tends to better and extend the contracts 
with steamship companies that carry on the commerce between Nicaragua and the 
other American countries. Effort is at present being made to have the company of 
navigation between the ports of Mexico and Salvador extend its line as far as the ports 
of Nicaragua so that commimication with the northern countries might be easier and 
more rapid; and the committee created on the recommendation of Rio de Janeiro is 
also interesting itself in the removal of tonnage tax. It would not be too much to say 
to you here, that the governments of Central America, anxious to improve com- 
munications between their countries, have concluded in Washington on December 20, 
1907, a treaty in which they bind themselves to establish and improve the means of 
communication, such as lines of steamers, submarine cables and telegraphs and tele- 
phones. 

Nicaragua has approved the convention relative to the liberal professions, signed 
in Mexico in 1902, and it is to be noted that the laws of the country do not require 
Nicaraguan citizenship for their exercise. Thus, also, the sanitary convention of 
Washington of 1905 has been approved. The important question concerning fluctua- 
tions in exchange is being studied with the care possible, and the general monetary 
plan is waited which the International Bureau of the llmerican Republics had 
announced in order to decide what would be most practical. 

Regarding the progress made in the works of the Pan American Railroad, the honor- 
able committee created by the former conferences will inform you later, and it is 
pleasing to say to you that endeavor has been made to bring the lines of railroad in 
construction in Nicaragua to conform as far as possible to the lines of the committee 
of 1893 in order that they may be availed of and the work of the intercontinental 
route become easier. 

It will give me pleasure to present to you separately a detailed report on this sub- 
ject, which shows the advance made in my country. 

With every consideration, it is pleasing for me to subscribe myself, the delegates 
humble servant, 

M. Perez Alonzo. 



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REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF PANAMA. 

Mr. President: In obedience to Article III of the program of the Fourth Interna- 
tional Conference of the American Republics, I have the honor to submit to you, in 
my capacity as delegate of the Republic of Panama, the report concerning the action 
taken by my Government on the resolutions and conventions of the Third Conference 
held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906. 

It is well known that my country, which in 1900 did not yet have the luster of a 
long independent existence, had the honor for the first time of entering, as a sovereign 
entity, into the concert of American nations. 

The agreement approving the principle of arbitration for the settlement of questions 
that may arise, as well as that relative to the inadmissibility of the use of force for the 
collection of contract debts as supported at The Hague peace conference, and the 
declaration of arbitration made at this famous conference, to which my country had the 
honor of being invited, have been approved, as has also the convention for the limita- 
tion of the use of force for the collection of contract debts. 

The agreement providing for the creation of a commission of jurists charged with the 
duty of preparing the plan of a code of public and private international law was also 
sanctioned by my country, since my Government appointed a delegate of the Republic 
to the Pan American Juristic Congress which was to meet at Rio de Janeiro in 1908 
and which has been postponed indefinitely. 

Panama has put no obstacle in the way of recovering citizenship in the case of citi- 
zens who, after becoming naturalized in other countries have returned to their country 
of origin with the purpose of remaining there permanently. Ever since the beginning 
of independence liberal laws on this point have been enacted. 

Save in very rare and exceptional cases the laws enlarge rather than restrict the 
means of acquiring citizenship in Panama. 

Progress which also has sought a place among us has increased production and 
wealth in the new republic so greatly that the construction of a railway has been 
begun which will connect the capital of the Republic with the city of David, the 
most remote of the important cities of the Isthmus of Panama on the shores of the 
Pacific and the nearest of them to the frontier of the Republic of Costa Rica. This 
railway will form part of the Pan American system which in a few years will join the 
one already constructed in the province of Bocas del Toro on the Atlantic side, also 
adjoining the Republic of Costa Rica. The former line will be more than 500 kilo- 
meters in length and will be constructed with public funds. The latter already has 
nearly 300 kilometers in operation, with 26 locomotives and 350 passenger and freight 
cars, and by Government concession, has been built by the well known United Fruit 
Co., a corporation dealing in bananas. 

Furthermore, Panama has complied most vigorously with all the preventive meas- 
ures for the treatment of contagious diseases; yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague 
and other diseases subject to quarantine are now unknown in the Republic, and the 
mortality is so much reduced that, taking the annual average of 50 per 1,000 deaths 
in 1905, two years after its separation from Colombia, when the capital of the Re- 
public had only 22,000 inhabitants, at the beginning of 1909, when the population of 
the city had reached 45,000, the annual average was hardly 19 per 1,000. It is un- 
doubtedly now much smaller, according to data before me, since progress in this 
branch of the public service has gone steadily forward while the population in all the 
territory of the Republic at the same time has increased considerably. In San Jose, 
Costa Rica, Panama was represented by a delegate at the Fourth International 
Sanitary Convention and approved through its delegate the several resolutions therein 
adopted for the prevention of epidemics and the lowering of mortality on our Con- 
tinent. 

The committee connected with the ministry of foreign affairs, charged with the 
duty of providing the bureau in Washington with whatever it might need, has not 
been appointed, in the hope, perhaps, of improving or enlarging the organization of that 
bureau. In all probability it has not been created because the personnel of the min- 
istry has been deemed sufficient to supply the bureau, whenever the case might 
arise, with anything needed for its labors. 

Here in resume is set forth the action taken by the Government of my country on 
the resolutions and conventions of the Third Pan American Conference. 

Belisario Porras. 

Buenos Aires, July 12, 1910. 



88 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF PARAGUAY. 

The Republic of Paraguay, in pursuance of the principles of American solidarity, 
and always promoting the many forms of its political and national development, 
in accordance with the most advanced ideas and inspirations which mark the pro- 
gressive evolution of the other countries, has with sincere faith attended all the prior 
American conferences and in general terms has formed its laws, conventions, and 
international procedures in accordance with the resolutions and conventions approved 
in said conferences. 

CONVENTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. 

Arbitration. — One of the questions of highest importance on which the Third Con- 
ference fixed its attention refers to arbitration as the most rational means of settling 
disputes between nations, and although the aspirations sanctioned by said resolution 
have not as yet had legal and positive confirmation which are to make it effective, 
Paraguay during its entire constitutional existence has ratified its adhesion to said 
high principle, having recourse thereto in special treaties for the settlement of its 
boundary disputes, one of the most recent being the Solar- Pinilla treaty, whereby its 
boundary dispute with Bolivia is submitted to the decision of the President of the 
Argentine Republic. 

Sanitary police. — The Third Conference, in its resolution on sanitary poHce, expressed 
its desire that the nations of America should adhere to the convention of Washington 
or carry its provision into effect. It m-ged the adoption of measiues tending to secure 
the sanitation of cities and port, and, in a general way, established the means of 
facilitating communication on sanitary questions among the American countries, 
so as to arrive at a better method which, assuring reciprocal defense against epidemics, 
would diminish the injmies arising from the rigid enforcement of quarantine and 
isolation. With that end in view, it favors the conventions of Washington and Rio 
de Janeiro and m-ges the creation of international consulting boards with reference to 
sanitary questions. 

Paraguay, in direct communication by its rivers with the countries of the Platte and 
of the Atlantic, has sought the realization of the ideals aspired to by the most modem 
methods of sanitary police and has formed its international sanitary conventions so 
as to accord fundamentally with the conventions of W^ashington and Rio de Janeiro, 
as the treaty of Montevideo shows, which is at present in force, and in which its rela- 
tions are fixed with Uruguay and Argentina. By it quarantines are, in a certain 
manner, suppressed by a rigid sanitary inspection and disinfection of vessels and ports, 
the voluntary declaration of local sanitary authorities of the appearance of epidemics 
and special methods of prevention being established in each case. 

Monetary status. — Through the instrumentality of the Chamber of Commerce of 
Asuncion the Government causes to be published the fluctuations of legal-tender 
money with respect to gold. The latest law actually in force provides for the con- 
version of paper n^ney into gold at the rate of 10 to 1; that is to say, 10 cents gold to 
1 peso paper. This conversion will be completed little by little within eight years. 
In order to effect it, a redemption fund exists, which is the proceeds of special taxes and 
whose amount to-day reaches one-fourth the value of the issue in circulation. 

Pan-American railways. — Upon this point the delegation will present a special 
report to the proper committee. 

Private and public international laiv — Naturalized citizens. — These two important 
conventions embrace the realization of high and eminently American ideals; they 
have not, however, been ratified except by very few countries. Paraguay hopes 
that new efforts will offer her the opportunity of confirming her adhesion to such 
useful principles. 

Pecuniary claims. — This being one of the most important subjects before the Fourth 
Conference, and Paraguay not having ratified said convention, she hopes that in the 
new deliberations a more adequate formula will be found more suitable to the existing 
American interests. 

Bureau of the international American office. — With regard to the resolution wherein 
the desire is expressed that each country should create a section subordinate to the 
ministry of foreign affairs, in whose chai'ge should be placed matters relating to the 
Bureau of American Republics, Paraguay remarks that if she has not, as almost all 
the other States, strictly complied therewith she has designated sections subordinate 
to the department of foreign affairs, the office that has charge of everything concerning 
the Pan American Union. 

International Bureau of the American Republics.— Acknowledging the useful work 
of the International Bureau, which constitutes one of the most efficacious means of 
activity of the union of the American republics, Paraguay has not relaxed her efforts 



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of every sort looking to its maintenance and its work of propaganda and general infor- 
mation. Owing to causes of a political nature, which in these last years have agitated 
her internal existence, it has not been possible for her to organize her diplomatic 
representation in certain countries, as in the United States of North America, where- 
fore she could not be represented in the International Bureau. She hopes, on the 
other hand, that the fourth conference, for the purpose of re-forming the regulation 
and organization of the International Bureau, will find a manner of simplifying and 
bettering the relations of said bureau with the government of each country, to the 
end of making its services more concrete and practical, thus approaching the ideal 
of union and protection of the American republics among themselves which gave 
rise to its formation. 

Building for the International Bureau of the American Republics. — The resolution 
adopted by the third conference now being a beautiful reality, Paraguay shows her 
great satisfaction thereat and records her gratitude for the munificence of Mr. Carnegie. 

Section of commerce customs and commercial statistics. — This provides duties for the 
International Bureau which complete its organization. Paraguay has contributed 
witiiin the scope of her obligations to the collection of information to render easy the 
action of this subdivision. 

Exercise of the liberal professions. — Paraguay has special treaties with several coun- 
tries, the fundamental portions whereof agree with the treaty of Mexico of 1902. 

Public debts. — Paraguay, through her representative in The Hague Conference, 
has carried out the recommendation of the third conference upon this point. 

'Patents, designs, models, privileges, etc. — If, indeed, Paraguay has not ratified this 
convention, her treaties at present in force follow its fundamental provisions. 

Natural resources. — Upon this subject the Paraguayan delegation will present to 
each delegate a recently published official publication in which complete informa- 
tion upon this point is contained. 

Commercial relations. — Paraguay has developed and considerably extended her 
means of river, railroad, and telegraph communication, therefore making important 
improvements in her international commercial relations. The Central Railroad of 
Paraguay is about to complete its extension which will join it with the Argentine 
lines, thus placing Asuncion in direct communication with Buenos Aires. Another 
company is projecting a line which, starting from the capital, will connect with the 
Brazilian lines, thus making a direct communication between Paraguay and the Bra- 
zilian ports of the Atlantic. Minor railroad lines in course of construction will con- 
nect many villages and towns of the interior. 

The telegraph lines lengthened in 1909 reached an extent of 204 kilometers. 

The river communications have considerably increased and their traffic has been 
perfected. Paraguay owns a complete dredging outfit, which maintained in active 
operation contributes to the preservation of the easy and regular navigation of her 
great rivers. 

In conclusion, the Paraguayan delegation has the pleasure of expressing their sia- 
cere hope that the most complete success will crown the deliberations of the Fourth 
Pan-American Conference. 

Teodosio GonzAlez. 
Jose P. Montero. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF PERU. 

Buenos Aires, July 2S, 1910. 

Mr. President: The delegation of Peru has the honor to inform the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference that all the conventions and resolutions adopted in 
the Third American Conference of 1906 have been implicitly approved. 

The conventions that require the legislative approval are submitted to the national 
congress for their final ratification. The executive has recommended that it be done 
as soon as possible. 

The resolution relative to the congress of jurists was expressly approved on August 17, 
1907. The Government likewise appointed the respective jurist, Senor Dr. Don 
Juan Jos6 Calle, formerly fiscal (attorney) of the supreme court of justice, who has 
not begun the exercise of his functions because it was agreed that the commission 
of J jurists should meet in May, 1911. 

The Government of Peru, by decree of March 20, 1908, also created the special 
committee charged with performing the duties to which Article III of the convention 
of August 23, 1906, refers. This committee is composed of the following persons: 

Chairman: Senor E. Larrabure y Undnue, Vice President of the Republic. 

Members: Senor Alberto Elmore, associate justice of the supreme court; Senor 
Anselmo V. Barreto, associate justice of the supreme court; Seiior Jose Antonio de 



90 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

Lavalle y Pardo, legal counsel to the supreme court; Senor Alejandro Garland, presi- 
dent of the National Society of Industries; secretary, the assistant chief of the boundary 
archives. 

The ministry of Fomento is at present studying the convention of patents, trade- 
marks, etc., to find whether it is in opposition to our liberal laws on the subject. 
We believe that it will shortly be submitted to the national congress for due ratification. 

As to the rest, with respect to the work of the Pan-American Pi.ailroad, we have the 
honor to submit herewith a special report and map in which is shown the effective 
work that Peru has accomplished during the fom* years elapsed since the International 
American Conference that sat at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. 

Peru, thus also, since the beginning of the present year, has established a rapid 
service of navigation in the Pacific, by means of merchant vessels of the Peruvian 
Steamship and Dock Co., which at present make the trip between Callao and Panama 
in five days. Formerly the trip between the two ports was made in 12 days at least. 

The example of the Peruvian Steamship Co. has served to have the Pacific Steam 
Navigation Co. and the Kosmos Co., respectively English and German, establish an 
equally rapid service of five days between Callao and Valparaiso. 

The Peruvian Steamship Co., which the Government of Peru subsidizes, will soon 
establish a like service in the same time. 

The delegation of Peru has the honor of presenting to his excellency the president 
of the Fourth International American Conference the assurances of their highest and 
most distinguished consideration. 

E. Larrabure y Unanue, 
J. A. DE Lavalle. 
C. A. Calderon. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF SALVADOR. 

In fulfillment of the provisions of Article III of the program of the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, the delegation of Salvador has the honor to submit a 
report relative to the action taken by the Government of the country which we rep- 
resent, upon the resolutions and conventions of the Pan-American Conference of Rio 
de Janeiro. 

The Government of our country, which is enthusiastic concerning the ideals of 
brotherhood and union of this Continent has viewed with delight the labors of the Pan- 
American conferences, and it is pleasing for us to state that the 18 instruments signed 
by the Third Conference were approved by the national assembly of Salvador under 
date of May 11, 1907, and proclaimed by the executive on the 16th of the same month. 

On the 23d of March, 1908, the Government issued a decree, whereby the committee 
subordinate to the ministry of foreign relations is created, which was recommended by 
the Third Conference in its resolution of August 13, 1906. 

This commission because of special circumstances has not up to this time been organ- 
ized, but meantime its duties have been discharged by the personnel of the depart- 
ment of state and foreign relations. 

The Government, in compliance with the provisions of the convention on inter- 
national law, appointed on February 28, 1908, its delegate to represent it on the inter- 
national commission of jurists charged with the preparation of the drafts of codes of 
public and private international law. 

One of the points which has most occupied the Government is that referring to the 
Pan-American Railroad. The report upon the works completed will be presented to 
the proper committee. 

The railroad building operations begun in Salvador, once they have been completed, 
will place the principal cities of the Republic in communication, and they will also 
be in direct contact with the Republic of Guatemala. 

The Government acknowledging the utility and importance of the recommenda- 
tions made by the international American conferences, has supported the establish- 
ment of a line of steamers which makes the direct journey between the Salvadoran 
port of Acajutla and the Mexican port of Salina Cruz in 36 hours. This line began its 
voyages at the beginning of last year, having gained because of its com-modiousness and 
rapidity the preference of the public. 

Sanitation has received special attention on the part of the Government; it has sent 
representatives to the two sanitary conferences which have taken place after the for- 
mer Pan-American conferences; one in Mexico, and the other in San Jose, Costa Rica. 
The board of health and the Institute of Vaccination work without interruption. 

F. Mejia, 
F. Martinez Suarez. 

Buenos Aires, July 18, 1910. 



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Mr. Sccrelanj of the Third Committee of the Fourth International American Conference: 

The delegation of Salvador submits the report which it presented to the Fourth 
International Pan-American Conference, and has the honor to make the following 
statement: 

In article 1 of the treaty on pecuniary claims for damages and injuries, this provision 
is found: 

■' The high contracting parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary 
loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens, and which can not 
be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels and when said claims are of suffi- 
cient importance to warrant the expenses of arbitration," and in the program of the 
Fourth Conference the consideration of the continuation after their expiration of the 
treaties concerning pecuniary claims is provided. 

In order that these considerations should lead to a result satisfactory to the interests 
of the countries of this Continent, it is proper to bear in mind the axiom of interna- 
tional law founded on a principle of justice, that it is due to the sovereignty of nations 
that foreign claimants must exhaust all legal means and remedies which the legisla- 
tion of the country against which they claim affords them before seeking the protection 
of their Government. 

To that end the Salvadoran delegation takes the liberty of recommending to the 
committee, of which the secretary is the worthy representative, that it is pleased to take 
into consideration the point above referred to in order that it may be submitted to the- 
consideration of the Fourth International American Conference. 

Francisco Martinez S. 
Buenos Aires, August 25, 1910. 



REPORT OP THE DELEGATION OF URUGUAY. 

The delegation of Uruguay has the honor to report on the topics indicated in subject 
III of the program. 
At the conference of Rio de Janeiro, 4 conventions and 14 resolutions were adopted: 

I. A convention concerning naturalization. 

II. A convention concerning pecuniary claims. 

III. On patents of invention, trade-marks and labels, and literary and artistic 
property. 

IV. On codification of international law, public and private. 

The first of the above-mentioned conventions which requires the approval of both 
houses, has not yet been sanctioned by the congress of Uruguay. 

But it may be predicted that it will not encounter any opposition, when the sim- 
plicity of the points agreed upon and the liberality of its provisions which do not raise 
any objection to its sanction, is considered. 

Convention No. 2 has not yet been sent to the congress. The delegation, through 
its chairman, will submit to the proper committee (the eleventh), the observations 
that it deems pertinent on a subject as delicate as it is important. 

The third convention has also not been sent to the congress. Uruguay has recently 
modified its trade-mark, commercial and agricultural legislation, making it conform 
to the most advanced principles on the subject, to the most authoritative decisions of 
judicial and administrative jurisprudence, domestic and foreign, and to the needs of 
commercial growth. That legislation at the same time that it has reorganized the 
registration of trade-marks by surrounding it with guarantees of inscription, has facili- 
tated the comparison of trade-marks, restricted their imitation and has guaranteed 
foreign trade-marks and facilitated their registration and renewal. Conspiracy and 
forgery are punished quickly and severely. A copy of the law is attached. 

No law has yet been enacted on artistic and literary property referred to in the civil 
code of Uruguay, but a proposed law is being considered, a copy of which is attached 
herewith. 

The patent and trade-mark law (1885) is in harmony with the principal laws in force 
concerning the subject in other countries. The executive power is now preparing a 
plan for improving the procedure in securing patents, making it more economical and 
adapting it to the advancement of inventions. 

In dealing with topic X of the program in the respective committee, Delegate 
Dr. Amezaga will set forth the conclusions which are regarded as the most interesting. 

The fourth Rio de Janeiro convention relates to a codification of public and private 
international law. 

The legislative body of Uruguay approved that convention and the executive 
appointed its delegate to the meeting of jurists which was to be held at Rio de Janeiro. 

The president of this delegation was named as the delegate in question. This meet- 
ing has been postponed. 



92 rOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

The codification of private international law received a \dgorous impulse at the 
congress held in Montevideo, which has been deservedly praised by noteworthy 
international lawyers. As to public international law, in spite of the differences 
existing in America, it is a well-known fact that there are valuable antecedents avail- 
able in the plans for codification drawn up by eminent publicists, both European and 
American, and in the proceedings of the Institute of International Law and partial 
codifications of certain important subjects. The work, therefore, is not Utopian 
and its realization is to be hoped for ere long. 

In regard to the resolutions adopted at the Rio de Janeiro conference we shall men- 
tion them in the order given in the published proceedings. 

The first deals with arbitration. 

In fulfillment of what had been agreed upon, Uruguay appointed its delegates 
plenipotentiary to the Second Hague Conference and, along with the majority of 
the nations, approved the proposal for compulsory arbitration. 

The second resolution of the Rio de Janeiro conference dealt with the organization 
and operation of the Bureau of the American Republics at Washington. 

The Government of Uruguay has contributed to the maintenance of the bureau, 
the usefulness and importance of which it recognized from the beginning. 

Certain charges will be suggested to insure a greater degree of success in the work 
of the bureau. 

As to the third resolution, concerning the building already inaugurated, Uruguay 
will join in the homage to be rendered to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the eminent Pan 
Americanist, whose valuable gift has made it possible to secure within a short time the 
construction of the palace which serves as the seat of the Bureau of the American 
Republics in Washington. 

The fourth resolution relates to the establishment in the ministry of foreign relations 
of each 'Republic of a committee to promote the approval of the resolutions of previous 
conferences and to furnish the bureau in Washington with data. 

This committee has not been created because it would be, perhaps, more conducive 
to the purposes set forth in the resolution, more in harmony with the internal organiza- 
tion of the administrative service in each country, and probably more expeditious, as 
well, if the governing board of the bureau in Washington, to which article 2 of the 
resolution (minutes of the Rio de Janeiro conference, p. 582), were to further, thi-ough 
the medium of the Department of State of the United States, all that relates to 
compliance with what may have been agreed upon at the conference, since that gov- 
erning board is composed of the diplomatic representatives of all the nations and is 
the permanent organ of the International Union of the American Republics. 
JI-A-s to the sending or furnishing of all sorts of statistical data and information, as the 
countries of the International American Union possess organized bureaus of statistics, 
it would be quite sufficient were such bureaus to send the data in question directly to 
the bureau in Washington, and, if they should not do so within a given period, the 
bureau should call for them through its director or governing board and through the 
medium of the Secretary of State of the United States. An agreement may be made 
in this sense. 

The bureau of statistics of Uruguay has always performed this duty by sending its 
annual. 

The delegation appends a pamphlet which contains the tables of exportation and 
importation for 1907 and 1908. 

This material has to do with the very useful proposal to render generally commercial 
and census statistics uniform. This is a need very much felt and bears a close relation 
to other resolutions adopted at Rio de Janeiro. 

Uruguay took its last national census of population and industry in 1908, as it took 
the municipal census of Montevideo in ISSQ, by a highly improved method of pro- 
cedure in which it made use of the individual blanks and followed the most advanced 
eystem of investigation. 

The fifth resolution was to be carried into effect by the Biireau of the American 
Republics in Washington, with the aid of the special committees to be established in 
the ministry of foreign affairs of each country. Since these special committees of 
information have not been created, that being a matter dependent upon the internal 
budget of each nation, the central bureau of the International American Union has 
been unable to perform the duty assigned to it. 

In this respect a statement is made of the changes that might be made in order to 
attain those results. 

The sixth resolution deals with the compulsory collection of public debts and defers 
the examination of the matter to the Second Hague Conference. 

Since Uruguay was represented and voted in this conference there would be no 
information at present to impart on so important a subject, which has furnished material 



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for an extensive and interesting bibliography — were it not for the fact that in the 
program of the Fourth Conference Topic IX shows some connection with the sixth 
resolution in question, and that it was included in The Hague convention relative to 
the limitation of the use of force for the collection of contract debts. 

The seventh Rio de Janeiro resolution concerns the practice of the liberal pro- 
fessions and recommends the adoption and ratification of the treaty of Mexico. 

The eighth resolution of the Kio de Janeiro conference deals with commercial 
relations and bears upon Topic VII of the program of the Fourth Conference. 

The chief task to fulfill was incumbent upon the central bureau in Washington, 
namely the elaboration of a plan for steamship service. 

Regarding postal and telegraph communication, railways, and exemption from 
transit taxes, Uruguay has suggested the holding of a congress to consider the first 
two of these points. The construction of railways has to do with the Pan American 
Railway system, which is a special topic. A Uruguayan railway that crosses the prin- 
cipal lines oi the country now in operation, called the Interior Railway, lies within 
the system projected for the Pan American Railway. 

The concession has been approved. The law therefore is annexed. And the plan 
of the line has just been submitted to the approval of the Uruguayan Government. 

Since the eleventh Rio de Janeiro resolution includes the Pan American Railway, 
this resolution is herewith reported upon, although Delegate Amezaga may furnish 
the committee with more elaborate data on the subject. 

Ninth resolution: On future conferences Delegate Rodriguez will supply remarks 
or proposals on the matter within the committee itself that has to deal with this 
topic and of which he is a member. 

Tenth resolution: On natural resources the information to be furnished by the 
central bureau in Washington will appear in the report of that office. But this infor- 
mation depends upon the cooperation that may be given by the countries composing 
the Union. 

It is a matter of great importance, therefore, to establish an adequate system for 
the speedy sending of all sorts of data by the statistical bureaus of each country of 
the Union to the central bureau in Washington. 

Eleventh resolution (on sanitary police): This resolution has been carried out. 
Uruguay was represented at the Third Sanitary Conference of Mexico. There it 
expressed its adherence to the Second Sanitary Conference of Washington. The 
convention agreed upon by this conference is the same as the sanitary convention of 
Paris of 1903, drawn up by eminent scientists from 23 nations. 

At the Second Sanitary Conference of Washington the portion relating to the prophy- 
laxis of yellow fever was added, and all that which referred to countries of the Levant 
and to traffic through the Suez Canal was omitted from the convention of Paris. 

The Fourth American Sanitary Conference of Costa Rica (December, 1909-January, 
1910) amplified certain resolutions, made new recommendations, and fixed an inter- 
pretation of Article IX of the Second Conference of Washington. 

The sanitary organization of Uruguay is highly advanced, and its internal regula- 
tion, as well as its service of an international character, are based upon the principles 
and declarations of the conference of Paris and of the American sanitary conferences. 

The latest reform in Uruguay centers the higher administration of the sanitary 
service in the national authorities as was recommended in those of Washington. 

Recently an organic law as to animal sanitary police has been enacted which corre- 
sponds to the most authorized scientific demands and to the encouragement of eco- 
nomic interests placed under the protection of veterinary and customs regulations. 

In regard to the twelfth resolution of the sanitary conference of Costa Rica we can 
only state that as yet the bureau of sanitary information to be established in Monte- 
video has not been organized. Its operation does not depend solely upon the initia- 
tive and good will of the Government of Uruguay, but also upon the aid in effective 
cooperation and communication which the other countries that must supply the data 
may furnish. In the respective committee. Delegate Pena will make some remarks 
on the matter. 

The twelfth resolution of the conference of Rio de Janeiro has already been treated 
in the observations made in connection with the eighth resolution, and will be ampli- 
fied also by Delegate Amezaga in the committee on the Pan American Railway. 

Thirteenth resolution includes an examination of the coffee crisis. It concerns 
primarily the countries of production. 

This product is a very prominent item in the commerce of Brazil and Uruguay and 
has a close relation to the other producing countries of America which are seeking an 
extension of their markets. 

The fourteenth resolution deals with the monetary system and with fluctuations in 
exchange during the last 20 years. 



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It was agreed that the countries forming the union should present treatises on these 
topics in due time to be distributed and examined six months at least before the 
meeting of this Fourth Conference. 

These treatises have not been prepared in a comprehensive and methodical manner 
on certain bases of uniformity. The study of exchange is one of great complexity. 
The factors to be examined and taken into account are many. They require well 
prepared statistics, analyses and interpretations of the same, and a comprehensive 
glance at the monetary regime, the organization of bank credits and public credits in 
each country. We are unable at this point to enter upon details like these which call 
for technical study. But we wish to state that perhaps the very difficulties and com- 
plexities involved in the examination of fluctuations in exchange are responsible 
for the nonpresentation of the treatises recommended. 

In Uruguay no investigation has been attempted by the Ijureau of statistics, nor has 
the subject been examined under the conditions laid down in the Third Conference, 
but Delegate Pena presents a statistical table on the rates of exchange for 20 
years — a table which, at his request, was prepared by Dr. Julio Llamas, professor of 
political economy in the School of Commerce of Uruguay. This table is accompanied 
by a graphic diagram and by various tables that enable one to appreciate side by side 
with the rates of exchange the changes in values of the commerce of Uruguay of both 
exportation and importation during the same period of 20 years. These are accom- 
panied in turn by other supplementary tables as well as by one relative to the com- 
merce between Uruguay and the United States. 

Within the respective committee. Delegate Pena will furnish all the information and 
•explanations that may be needful. 

The Government of Uruguay has just presented to congress a plan of reform in the 
customs tariff. This plan is followed by an extensive analytical study of the greatest 
importance. It includes new classifications, an extension of the scope of specified 
duties, and statistical comparisons to enable one to understand the effect from a ^dew- 
point of revenue of the reform. 

There will be presented to the proper committee a copy of this interesting work. 

The study of the monetary system of Uruguay, even though couched in brief terms, 
would be of the greatest interest. But this is not the time to consider it. Later a report 
will be sent to the central office of the union in Washington as was agreed in the Third 
Conference at Rio de Janeiro . 

But if the question is considered at the meeting of any committee of this Fourth 
Conference, the chairman, Mr. Ramirez, or the delegate, Mr. Pena, will furnish the 
information necessary for all these topics. 

Such, your excellency, Mr. President, are the reports and information which the 
delegation of Uruguay is able to furnish concerning the fulfilment of resolutions and 
conventions approved in the Third Conference of Rio de Janeiro. 

It is very pleasing for us to salute his excellency, the president, therefore, with the 
greatest consideration. 

GoNZALo Ramirez, Chairman. 
Carlos M. de Pena. 
Antonio M. Rodriguez, 
Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Buenos Aires, July 18, 1910. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATION OF VENEZUELA. 

Mr. President: Even if the United States of Venezuela did not participate in the 
Third Interna*;ional American Conference, the Venezuelan delegation has the honor 
tosubmit to the consideration of the present conference a brief report on matters per- 
taining to it that relate to Topic III of the program under which we are assembled. 

REORGANIZATION OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

The resolution adopted in this regard at Rio de Janeiro is open to debate by the 
terms of Topic IV of the program, and the delegation will submit two propositions 
concerning this matter in two appendices to the present report marked "A " and "B." 

CONVENTION FIXING THE STATUS OP NATURALIZED CITIZENS. 

Articles I and II of this agreement provide that the native citizen of a State, natu- 
ralized in another, upon again taking up his residence in the country of origin without 
the intention of returning to the country of his adoption, resumes his original citizen- 



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ship; and that the intention of not returning must be presumed when the naturalized 
person resides for more than two years in the country of origin. In Article II it is 
added, nevertheless, that, "this presumption may be overcome by evidence to the 
contrary." In view of the fact that most treaties concluded for this purpose do not 
contain such a reservation; that this has already given rise to disputes and will always 
do so; that with regard to the scope of this very provision the doctrine has been ad- 
vanced that the State "reserves to itself fully and absolutely the right to decide with 
respect to the status of its citizens and that it exercises this right exclusively as an attri- 
bute of its sovereignty;" the Venezuelan Executive would not be disposed to ask its 
congressional ratification unless said reservation were suppressed. 

PECUNIARY CLAIMS. 

The Government of the United States of Venezuela is willing to sign the convention 
relative to pecuniary claims made at Rio de Janeiro, together with its extension, pro- 
vided always that it be understood that resort to diplomatic intervention shall not 
be had with regard to this class of claims except in a case of the denial of justice on 
the part of a State against which the claim is made. 

CREATION OF INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEES SUBORDINATE TO THE MINISTRIES OF 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 

This resolution, which properly forms part of the organization of the Bureau of 
American Republics, since the proposed committees become organs of the International 
Union, organized in each of the capitals of that union, would have no real purpose 
if it were not adopted and put into practice by all or at least the majority of the States 
of America, since their principal usefulness depends upon the harmonious opera- 
tions of all these bodies so as to cooperate in the realization of what is agreed to at these 
different conferences and to prepare, in common accord and upon reflection, the work 
of future gatherings. With this end in view our Government would like to know 
whether all or most of the nations of America join in the creation of these committees, 
and in this case it proposes that some of the beauties to which Article III of the resolu- 
tion in question refers be defined, and that there be included among them (1) that 
of making reports concerning the labors which each State may propose for the Bureau 
of American Republics for each new conference; (2) that of collecting information 
and of investigating measures which may tend to the uniformity of consular documents 
and customs regulations, census and commercial statistics and relations. With regard 
to this second point the basis would be the formation of a nomenclature which should 
establish in an official manner in America the equivalents in Spanish of the words 
which, in the various countries of this tongue, designate articles and products of com- 
merce and industry; and the terms to which this Spanish word corresponds in English, 
Portuguese, and French. A work of this magnitude could not be undertaken and 
much less completed except by technical committees of each country of the union 
formed by an expert in customs nomenclature and a linguist, to the end that the labors 
of the various committees might be centralized in the bureau at Washington, where 
they would serve for the formation of the official nomenclature of the American 
nations. 

SANITARY POLICE. 

The Government of the United States of Venezuela has paid special attention to this 
administrative branch. It has created in the ministry of interior relations a board of 
public health, supplemented by a superior council of hygiene. The board of public 
health and the body of experts attached to it have issued ordinances of sanitary 
police; have made effective the obligatory declaration of contagious diseases, and have 
attended with special care to the sanitation of the ports and to the struggle against yel- 
low fever and bubonic plague, so far as to accomplish the extinction of the latter, which 
two years ago infested the ports of Venezuela, having been brought in from the Pacific. 
The United States of Venezuela were represented by two experts at the international 
sanitary conference of San Jose, Costa Rica, and are disposed to adopt the international 
sanitary convention of Washington, provided Article IX of said convention be not 
given the interpretation in the sixth recommendation of the international sanitary 
conference of San Jose, because that interpretation seems contrary to the idea of the 
decorum inherent in sovereignty, and might, moreover, be converted into an easy 
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CONVENTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. 

This convention has been sent to Congress with a request that legal authorization 
be given in order that the executive may adhere to it in the name of Venezuela. 

CONVENTION CONCERNING PATENTS. 

Without entering upon the merits of the matter, and in case the bureaus of registra- 
tion are established which this convention proposes, Venezuela'^ observes that mindful 
of her position on the South American continent, of her bordering on Brazil, of the 
natural development of maritime and river communication^ which everything tends 
to make more rapid and more frequent between the two countries, it should form part 
of the group of nations whose bureau of registry would be at the city of Eio de Janeiro. 

Buenos Aires, July 12, 1910. 

Manuel DIaz RodrIguez. 

C. ZUMETA. 

To His Excellency Senor Dr. Antonio Bermejo, 

President of the Fourth International Conference. 



APPENDIX I. 



REPORT AND DRAFT OF RESOLUTIONS BY THE THIRD COMMITTEE, 

The third committee, intrusted with Topic III, "The examination of the reports or 
memorials presented by each delegation relative to the action of the respective 
Governments concerning the resolutions and conventions of the Third Conference^ 
held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 1906, including the report of the Pan-American com- 
mittees and the consideration of extending'the functions of the latter," has the honor 
to submit to the Fourth International Conference of the American Republics the fol- 
lowing report and draft of resolution : 

All the countries represented in the present conference have submitted their reports 
relative to this topic, with the exception of Haiti, which did not attend the conference 
at Rio de Janiero. 

CONVENTIONS. 

The first convention, fixing the status of naturalized citizens who again take up 
their residence in the country of their origin, has been approved by the United States, 
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, 
Panama, and Salvador. 

The Chamber of Deputies of Argentina has approved it and the agreement of the 
Senate is awaited in order that it may become a law. 

The Senate of Mexico has approved it, but it has been deemed wise to await the 
result of the general revision which it is proposed to carry into effect with regard to 
the legislation on naturalization before promulgating the decree. 

Paraguay hopes to adhere to such a useful proposal. Peru has implicitly approved 
it, submitting it to the National Congress for its final ratification. 

In Uruguay it has not yet been approved, but its delegation believes that it will 
encounter no opposition. 

Only two Governments believe that they can not give it their approval — Cuba and 
Venezuela. The former because it believes that Article VII of the constitution, 
which reads as follows, 

' ' Cuban nationality is lost — 

"4. In case of naturalized Cubans, by their residence for five years continuously in 
the country of origin, except when serving an office or fulfilling a commission of a 
Government of the Republic ' ' 

is in contradiction with Ai-ticle II of the treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which is of the fol- 
lowing tenor: 

"The intention not to retm-n will be presumed to exist when the natiu-alized person 
shall have resided in his native country for more than two years. But this presump- 
tion may be destroyed by evidence to the contrary." 

Venezuela objects to the words in Article II which say, "but this presumption may 
be destroyed by evidence to the contrary, ' ' and declares that — 

' ' In view of the fact that most of the treaties concluded for this purpose do not con- 
tain such a reservation; that this has already given rise to disputes and will always do 
so; that with regard to the scope of this very provision the doctrine has been upheld 
that the State 'reserves to itself fully and absolutely the right to decide with respect 
to the status of its citizens and that it exercises this right exclusively as an attribute 
of its sovereignty;' the Venezuelan executive would not be disposed to ask its con- 
gressional ratification unless said reserve were suppressed." 

The second convention concerning pecuniary claims for damages and injuries has 
been approved by the United States of America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecua- 
dor, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Salvador. 

In Argentina it has received the approval of the Chamber of Deputies and awaits 
that of the Senate. In Brazil it is awaiting the approval of the National Congress. 
Uruguay has not sent it to the legislative body. 

Concerning this convention, which will remain in force until December 31, 1912, 
Chile is of opinion that it should be renewed for an indefinite time, in conformity 

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with the principle of international law sanctioned in the convention of Mexico con- 
cerning the rights of foreigners, and would view with pleasure that this latter conven- 
tion be ratified by all the countries of America. 

Costa Rica believes it necessary, in the new convention, to make these principles 
clear, that resort shall not be had to the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal of claims 
without first having exhausted all legal remedies before the tribunals of the country 
against the Government of which the claim has been presented, and that there has been 
on the part of said tribunal a manifest denial of justice or an undue delay or an evident 
violation of the principles of international law. Paraguay has not ratified said con- 
vention, and hopes that in the new deliberations a form better suited to the interests 
of American nations may be found. Peru has implicitly approved this convention, 
and has referred it to the National Congress for its final ratification. Salvador, which 
has approved it, presented to this committee an additional report concerning this 
"treaty in which on referring to the consideration of the extension of the same says: 

"In order that these considerations should lead to a result satisfactory to the interests 
of the countries of this continent, it is proper to bear in mind the axiom of international 
law founded on a principle of justice, that it is due to the sovereignty of nations that 
foreign claimants must exhaust all legal means and remedies which the legislation of 
the country against which they claim affords them before seeking the protection of 
their Government." 

Uruguay has not as yet sent it to the legislative body. The United States of Vene- 
zuela are disposed to sign it and its extension provided that it be understood that there 
shall be no recourse to diplomatic intervention with regard to this class of claims, 
except in case of a denial of justice on the part of the State against which the claim is 
made. 

The observations concerning this matter made by the different delegations were 
sent in due course to the proper committee. 

The third convention concerning patents, designs, and industrial models, trade- 
marks and literary and artistic property has been approved by Chile, Costa Rica, 
Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Salvador. 

The United States of America has not been able to decide anything regarding this 
matter because of the impossibility of harmonizing its present legislation and practice 
on patents with the plan of the convention. The delegation of the United States will 
present separate drafts for patents, trade-marks, and copyrights. These drafts will be 
in accordance with the treaty of Paris of 1883, and with regard to copyrights, the 
modifications recently made at the congress held in Berlin in 1909 upon this matter 
will be borne in mind. In Argentina it is awaiting the approval of Congress. The 
National Congress of Brazil has not as yet given its approval to this convention. 
Costa Rica, which has approved it, says in its report: 

"The convention of Rio de Janeiro in part changes our legal principles, but as it 
has 'not been possible to carry these provisions into effect in the majority of our coun- 
tries, we have not tried to harmonize our laws with the conventions." 

Cuba, which adhered to the treaty of Mexico on patents, designs, and industrial 
models, trade-marks, has not been able to recommend to the Senate the adoption of 
the convention of Rio de Janeiro because it had not accepted that of Mexico concerning 
that of literary and artistic property of which it forms a part. Mexico has not been able 
to take any steps in regard to it, because it has not approved the treaties of Mexico of 
1902, which, with some modifications, form the convention of Rio de Janeiro. Para- 
guay, if indeed it has not ratified this convention, in its existing treaties adheres to 
its fundamental provisions. Peru also is considering it, and believes that it will soon 
be submitted to the National Congress for its final ratification. Uruguay has not 
-sent it to the legislative body. 

The fourth convention concerning international law has been approved bj^ the 
United States of America, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Repub- 
lic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hondiu-as, Mexico, Panama, Salvador, and Uruguay. 

It is awaiting approval in the Argentine Congress and in that of Nicaragua. 

Paraguay is awaiting an opportunity to confirm its adhesion to such a useful pro- 
posal. Venezuela has sent it to Congress with a request for legal authorization for the 
executive to adhere to it in the name of Venezuela. Chile in treating this subject 
believes that it would be advantageous if the foiu'th conference should specify the 
bases or general lines along which the international commission might proceed in the 
discharge of its duty; it exposes at length its points of view which endeavor to group 
separately the matters of American interest and those of a universal character and 
condenses its opinion in a draft of resolution the text of which is as follows: 
, "The Fourth International American Conference resolves: 

"To confirm the convention agreed upon at the third conference of Rio de Janeiro 
relative to the codification of international law, by means of a commission of jurists, 



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and believes that in the performance of its duties it should arrange its work upon the 
'following bases: 

"(a) In addition to keeping separate the usual divisions of the subject into public 
international law and private international law, it should also subdivide its work 
into matters of universal application and to American application; 

"(6) The matters of American application would be made up into a plan which, 
after having been brought to the knowledge and attention of the Governments, could 
be presented for the approval of the next Pan American Conference in accordance 
with Article III, paragraphs 2 and 7, of the convention of Rio de Janeiro. 

"(c) The matters of universal character would be made up into a separate project 
that would follow a like course and it would be presented in the name of the American 
States which might have approved it to -the next conference at The Hague." 

The undersigned committee after having examined the ideas presented by Chile, 
believes that the conference ought to submit to the consideration of the commission 
of jurists created by the Third International American Conference, the suggestion 
made by the delegation of Chile relative to the form in which said commission might 
fulfil its task. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

1. The American Governments gave instructions to their representatives to the 
Second Peace Conference at The Hague in consonance with the resolutions concerning 
international arbitration. 

2. The second resolution concerned the reorganization of the International Bureau 
of the American Republics. They have all contributed to its maintenance, agreeing 
to the increase of the quota which has been caused by the increasing necessities. 

Chile believes that, apart from its functions, it should constitute a center of informa- 
tion on the commercial relations of the American nations, in order to foment the inter- 
change of products between them, and to reach by these practical methods the creation 
of new and lasting bonds of friendship. 

3. Concerning the building for the Bureau of the American Republics, already com- 
pleted, everyone pays a tribute of thanks to Mr. Andrew Carnegie because of his 
generous donation, which has permitted the sumptuous realization of all the wishes of 
the Third Conference. 

4. This resolution refers to the organization in the department for foreign affairs of 
each Republic of a committee which shall promote the approval of the resolutions 
of prior conferences and the transmission of data to the bureau at Washington. These 
have been already established by the United States, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, 
Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Salvador. 

Venezuela proposes that some of the duties to which the third article of the resolu- 
tion refers be defined, and that there be included in it — 

"1. That of making reports concerning the labors which each State might propose 
for the Bureau of the American Republics for each new conference ; and 

"2. That of collecting information and of investigating measures that may tend to 
the uniformity of consular documents and customs regulations, census, and commercial 
statistics and relations. With regard to this second point the basis would be the 
formation of a nomenclature which should establish, in an official manner in America, 
the equivalents in Spanish of the words which, in the various countries of this tongue, 
designate articles and products of industries, and the terms to which this Spanish word 
corresponds in English, Portuguese, and French. A work of this magnitude could not 
be undertaken and much less completed except by technical committees of each 
country of the Union formed by an expert in customs nomenclature and by a linguist, 
to the end that the labors of the various committees might be centralized in the bm-eau 
at Washington, where they would serve for the formation of the official nomenclatiu-e 
of the American nations." 

5. This resolution concerned the creation of a section of commerce, customs, and 
commercial statistics in the International Bureau of the American Republics, with the 
assistance of the special Pan American committees, and must be the subject of a report 
from the director of that bureau. 

6. The sixth resolution related to the compulsory collection of public debts, and 
referred the examination of this matter to the Second Hague Conference. The Ameri- 
can Governments there represented carried out the instructions of their respective 
foreign offices. 

7. The seventh resolution, regarding the liberal professions, which confined itself 
to confirming in its entirety the treaty concerning their practice, signed at Mexico, 
neither the United States nor Cuba, owing to the legislation existing in both countries, 
have been able to adhere to. Uruguay maintains in force the treaties of Montevideo 
concerning this matter. Brazil has not given its approval in the National Congress. 
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professions, signed in Mexico in 1902, it being worthy of note that the laws of the 
country do not require, for their exercise, Nicaraguan citizenship. 

8. This resolution, relative to commercial relations, also should form a part of the 
detailed report of the director of the International Bureau of the American Republics. 

9. This resolution has as its object the assurance of periodical reunions of the con- 
ference at short intervals and the meeting of the fourth conference. Concerning this 
resolution the Government of the United States declares: 

"That it views with approval the method embodied in this resolution, whereby 
the governing board of the International Bureau of the American Republics is author- 
ized to designate the place of meeting and, subject to the conditions fixed by the con- 
ference, the date thereof." 

10. The tenth resolution related to natural resources and is thus a matter also for the 
report of the Director of the International Bureau of the American Republics. 

11. The eleventh resolution concerned sanitary police, and the various reports 
contain an account of the great advance that has been made in the different countries 
in this matter since the conference at Rio de Janeiro. 

Brazil has adhered to the convention of Washington under date January 9, 1908, 
and in the Third Sanitary Conference of Uruguay did likewise. 

The delegation of Paraguay states "that Paraguay in direct communication by its 
rivers with the countries of the Plate and of the Atlantic, has sought the realization 
of the ideals aspired to by the most modem methods of sanitary police, and has formed 
its international sanitary conventions so as to accord fundamentally with the conven- 
tions of Washington and Rio de Janeiro, as the treaty of Montevideo shows, which is at 
present in force, and in which its relations are fixed with Uruguay and Argentina." 

In the report of Uruguay it is said that as yet the bureau which was to have been 
constituted in Montevideo has not been organized; in this respect it declares that 
its operation does not depend solely upon the initiative and good will of the Govern- 
ment of Uruguay, but also upon the concurrence of efficacious adhesion and communi- 
cations which the other countries that are to join in furnishing information may lend. 

Venezuela declares that she is disposed to adopt the international sanitary con- 
vention of Washington, provided that to Article IX of said convention the interpre- 
tation urged in the sixth recommendation of the international sanitary conference at 
San Jos6 be not given; because that interpretation appears contrary to the concept 
of decorum inherent in sovereignty, and might moreover be converted into an easy 
method of disturbing the commerce of a given country. 

12. The twelfth resolution concerned the Pan American Railroad. Reserving the 
right to present to the committee of this conference which is occupied with this matter, 
several countries state in their reports the amount of work completed; and these data, 
together with the report of the permanent committee of Washington, which the United 
States have transmitted, show the progress that has been accomplished in the inter- 
continental system. 

13. The thirteenth resolution, which concerned the meeting of a coffee congress, 
has had no action taken on it. The congress has not been convoked by Brazil. Gua- 
temala would see with pleasure that the idea of said congress might be carried out. 

14. The fourteenth resolution concerned monetary systems, etc. The United States 
has sent, as has Panama, as appendices to their reports, a work upon this matter, 
and Brazil a work upon the monetary political situation of Brazil by Senhor Calogeras. 

A summarized table is annexed which shows what Governments have approved the 
conventions and organized the Pan American committees. 

Taking into consideration everything contained in the reports and the opinions 
expressed in the sessions of the committee, the following is recommended as the 
draft of a resolution: 

The undersigned, delegates of the Republics represented at the Fourth Interna- 
tional American Conference, thereunto duly authorized by their Governments, have 
approved the following resolution: 

To recommend to the Governments represented — 

(1) That they send through the conduct of the ministers of foreign relations all the 
reports presented to this conference to each one of the Pan American committees, and 
to the Pan American Union, for appropriate action. 

(2) That these reports being of great usefulness, the Governments are especially 
urged to present them to future conferences and in order that they may be more care- 
fully examined, that they be sent three months beforehand to the Pan American Union 
in order that they may be printed, and to the end that they be distributed upon the 
day of the opening of the conference. 

(3) That the usefulness of the Pan American committees in the countries wherein 
they have been established and the evident utility of establishing them in the nations 
which have not yet done so, having been proved, the latter are urged to create them 
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(4) That thus also the fulfillment of the resolutions of the Third Conference upon 
natural resources, a monetary system, commerce, customs, and statistics, is urged upon 
the Governments, the bureaus of the respective countries being able to send directly 
to the Pan American Union at Washington their reports, annuals, data, and every 
class of publication that refers to these matters. 

(5) That, in order to facilitate the deposit of the ratifications of the conventions, 
and in order to render more rapid their exchange and publication, besides the copy of 
ratifications sent to the department for foreign affairs of the country in which the 
conference is held, another copy be sent, as a means of information, to the Pan 
American Union and that a like procedure be followed with respect to the adhesion of 
nonsignatory nations. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, on the • day of 

August, 1910, in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French, and deposited in the 
department for foreign relations of the Argentine Republic, in order that certified 
copies may be taken to be sent through diplomatic channels to each one of the signatory 
States. 
Buenos Aires, August 3, 1910. 

Henry White, delegate of the United States of America; M. Montes de Oca, 
delegate of Argentina; Olavo Bilac, delegate of Brazil; Miguel Cru- 
chaga, delegate of Chile; R. Ancizar, delegate of Colombia; Alfredo 
Volio, delegate of Costa Rica; Gonzalo de Quesada, delegate of Cuba; 
Amerigo Lugo, delegate of Dominican Republic; A. CArdenas, delegate 
of Ecuador; Manuel Arroyo, delegate of Guatemala; C. Fouchard, 
delegate of Haiti; Luis Lazo, delegate of Honduras; Luis Perez Verdla, 
delegate of Mexico; M. Perez Alonso, delegate of Nicaragua; Belisario 
Porras, delegate of Panama; Jose P. Montero, delegate of Paraguay; 
E. Larrabure y Un4nue, delegate of Peru; F. Martinez Suarez, delegate 
of Salvador; Carlos M. de Pena, delegate of Uruguay; Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, delegate of Venezuela. 

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS, THIRD COM- 
MITTEE. 

Ratifications of conventions of Rio de Janeiro and the appointment of the Pan American 

committees. 



Countries. 



Status of 

naturalized 

citizens. 



Pecuniary- 
claims. 



Patents, trade- 
marks, etc. 



International 
law. 6 



Fan Ameri- 
can com- 
mittees. 



America (United States).., 
Argentina 



Brazil . 



Chile 

Colombia 

Costa Rica 

Cuba 

Dominican Republic . 

Ecuador 

Guatemala' 

Haiti 8 

Honduras 

Mexico 



Nicaragua. 
Panama... 
Paraguay.. 
Peru 



Salvador. 
Uruguay . 



Venezuela ^ . 



Jan. 13, 1908... 

Sanctioned by 
House; pend- 
ing in Senate. 

Oct. 8, 1909.... 



June 28, 1909.. i 
Aug. 29, 1908..; 
Oct. 26, 1908...' 

(*) ! 



Mar. 2, 1907... 

Sanctioned by 
House; pend- 
ingin Senate 

Awaiting con- 
gress i n a ] 
approval. 

June 28, 1909.. 

Aug. 29, 19082. 

Oct. 26, 1908 2.. 

Mar. 17, 1908 . . 



Nov. 1909 

Apr. 20, 1907 . . 



Nov. 1909 

Apr. 20, 1907 2. 



Feb. 5, 1907... 

Approved but 
waits proc- 
lamation. 

Feb. 20, 1908.. 

Approved 



Feb. 5, 1907... 
Nov. 18, 19072. 



Feb. 20, 1908 2, 
Approved 



Pending in 
Congress. 

May 11, 1907 . . 

Not yet sanc- 
tioned. 



Pending in 
Congress. 2 

May 11, 1907.. 

Not sent to 
Congress. 



Awaiting con- 
gress i o n a 1 
approval, i 

do.i 



July 2, 19091. 

(1) 
Oct. 26, 19083 

(0 



Feb. 3, 1908... 

Awaiting con- 
gress i o n a 1 
approval. 

Dec. 7, 1907... 



Julys, 1909.. 
Mar. 10, 1907 . 
Oct. 26, 1908.. 



Nov. 1909 1 . . . 
Apr. 19, 1907 3 



June 15, 1907. 

Nov. 1909 

Apr. 19, 1907 . 



Feb. 5, 19073. 



Feb. 5, 1907.. 
June 10, 1907. 



Feb. 20, 1908 . . 
Approved 

(1) 

(■) 

May 11, 1907 8. 

Not sent to 

Congress. 

(') 



Approved. 

Mar.'20,'l9( 



May 11, 1907... 
Mar. 27, 1907 . . 

Awaits Con- 
gress i o n a 1 
approval. 



Yes. 
Yes. 



Yes. 
Yes. 



Yes. 
Yes. 



Yes. 
Yes. 



Yes. 

Yes. 
Yes. 



1 Ratified Montevideo treaties. 

2 Approved treaty of Mexico. 

3 Approved treaties of Mexico. 
<In conflict with constitution. 



5 Ratified again Feb. 15, 1909. 

6 Meeting set May 21, 1911. 

^ Approved that of Mexico on patents but not copyrights. 
8 Not represented at Rio. 



APPENDIX J 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



CONVENCION 



CONVENTION 



Patentes de invencion, dibujos y modelos 
industriales 

S. S. E. E. los Presidentes de los Esta- 
dos Unidos de America, de la Republica 
Argentina, del Brasil, de Chile, de Colom- 
bia, de Costa Rica, de Cuba, de la Repu- 
blica Dominicana, del Ecuador, de Guate- 
mala, de Haiti, de Honduras, de Mexico, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, del Paraguay, 
del Peru, de El Salvador, del Uruguay y 
de Venezuela: 

Deseando que sus paises respectivos 
fueran representados en la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Intemacional Americana, envia- 
ron a ella debidamente autorizados, para 
aprobar las Recomendaciones, Resolu- 
ciones, Convenciones y Tratados, que 
juzgaren utiles para los intereses de Ame- 
rica a los siguientes Seiiores Delegados: 
Estados Unidos de America: Henry "WTiite, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
Republica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Estados Unidos del Brasil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Alme- 
ida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
RepvLblica de Chile: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
comal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Repiiblica de Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republica de Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Republica Dominicana: Americo Lugo. 
Republica del Ecuador: Alejandro Car- 
denas. 
Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo He- 
rrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga. 



Inventions, patents, designs a-ad industrial 
models 

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the 
United States of America, the Argentine 
Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa 
Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecua- 
dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, 
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Sal- 
vador, Uruguay, and Venezuela: 



Being desirous that their respective . 
countries may be represented at the 
Fourth International American Confer- 
ence, have sent thereto the following dele- 
gates, duly authorized to approve the 
recommendations, resolutions, conven- 
tions and treaties which they might deem 
advantageous to the interests of America. 
United States of America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
Argentine Republic: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
United States of Brazil: Joaquim Murtinho, 
Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Almeida 
Nogueii'a, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republic of Chili: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
cornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republic of Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republic of Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdez, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Dominican Republic: Americo Lugo. 
Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cdrdenas. 

Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo He- 
rrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga, 



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APPENDIX J 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



CONVEN^AO 

Patentes dc invengao, desenhos e modelos 
indtLstriaes 

Suas Excellencias os Presidentes dos 
Estados Unidos da America, da Republica 
Argentina, do Brasil, do Chile, da Colom- 
bia, da Costa Rica, de Cuba, da Republica 
Dominicana, do Equador, de Guatemala, 
de Haiti, de Honduras, do Mexico, de 
Nicaragua, do Panama, do Paraguay, 
do Peru, de Salvador, do Uruguay e de 
Venezuela : 

Desejando que os sens respectivos 
paizes fossem representados na Quarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
mandaram, devidamente autorizados, para 
approvar as recommendagoes, resolu- 
goes, convengoes, e tratados que julgas- 
sem de utilidade para os interesses da 
America, os seguintes Srs. Delegados: 
Estados Unidos da America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Republica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rod- 
riguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Estados Unidos do Brasil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republica do Chile: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
comal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republica da Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republica da Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Republica Dominicana: Americo Lugo. 
Republica do Equador: Alejandro Carde- 
nas. 
Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga. 



CONVENTION 

Brevets d'invention, patentes de dessins et 
de modules induslriels 

LL. EE. les Presidents dee Etats-Unis 
d'Amerique, de la Republique Argentine, 
du Bresil, du Chili, de la Colombie, de 
Costa-Rica, de Cuba, de la Republique 
Doniinicaine, de I'Equateur, du Guate- 
mala, d'Haiti, du Honduras, du Mexique, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, du Paraguay, 
du Perou, du Salvador, de I'Uruguay et 
de Venezuela. 

Desirant que leurs pays respectifs fus- 
sent representee a la Quatrieme Confer- 
ence Internationale Americaine, y envoy- 
erent. dument autorises, pour approuver 
les Recommandations et Traites qu'ils 
jugeraient utiles aux interets de I'Ameri- 
que, Messieurs les Delegues dont les noms 
suivent: 

Elats - Unis d'Amerique: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Republique Argentine: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes de 
Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodriguez 
Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, 
, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Etats-Unis du Bresil: Joaquim Murtinho, 
Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Almeida 
Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da Cun- 
ha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republique du Chili: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republique de Colombie: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republique de Costa-Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republique de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Republique Dominicaine: Americo Lugo. 
Republique de I'Equateur: Alejandro Car- 
denas. 
Republique du Guatemala: I^uis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario !]6g- 
trada. 
Republique d' Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republique du Honduras; Luis Lazo Arri^ 
aga. 

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104 FOURTH INTERNATIOISTALi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdla, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 
Alonso. 

Republica de Panamd: Belisario Porras. 

RepTtiblica del Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Repiiblica del Peru:^ Eugenio Larrabure y 
IJn^nue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Repiiblica de El Salvador: Federico Mejla, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Republica del Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Quienes despues de haberse comuni- 

cado sus poderes y encontrandolos en 

buena y debida forma, ban acordado en 

celebrar la siguiente Convenci6n: 

ArtIculo 1 

Las naciones signatarias adoptan este 
Convenio para la proteccion de las pa- 
tentes de invencion, dibujos y modelos 
industriales. 



United Mexican StMes: Victoriano Salado 

Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, Antonio 

Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 

Ruiz. 

Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel P6rez 

Alonso. 
Republic of Panama: Belisario Porras. 
Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio Gonzdlez, 

Jose P. Montero. 
Republic of Peru: Eugenio Larrabure, y 
IJndnue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jos^ 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Republic of Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Suarez: 
Republic of Urugu/iy: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
United States of Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Who, after having presented their cre- 
dentials, and the same having been found 
in due and proper form, have agreed 
upon the following Convention: 

Article I. 

The subscribing Nations enter into this 
convention for the protection of patents of 
invention, designs and industrial models. 



Articulo II 

Toda persona de cualquiera de los 
Estados signatarios, gozara en cada uno 
de los otros Estados, de todas las ventajas 
que conceden las leyes relativas a pa- 
tentes de invencion, dibujos y modelos 
industriales. En consecuencia, tendran 
la misma proteccion e identicos recursos 
legales contra todo ataque 4 sus derechos, 
sin perjuicio de cumplir con las formali- 
dades y condiciones impuestas por las 
disposiciones de la legislacion interior de 
cada Estado. 



Article II. 

Any persons who shall obtain a patent 
of invention in any of the signatory States, 
shall enjoy in each of the other States all 
the advantages which the laws relative 
to patents of invention, designs and indus- 
trial models concede. Consequently, 
they shall have the right to the same pro- 
tection and identical legal remedies 
against any attack upon their rights, pro- 
vided they comply with the laws of each 
State. 



Articulo III 

Toda persona que haya depositado de- 
bidamente una solicitud de patente de 
invenci6n, dibujo 6 modelo industrial, en 
uno de los Estados contratantes, gozara de 
un derecho de prioridad durante un ter- 
mino de doce meses para las patentes de 
invencion, y de cuatro meses para los 
dibujos 6 modelos industriales, & fin de 
■que pueda hacerse el dep6sito en los otros 
Estados, sin perjuicio de los derechos de un 
tercero. 

En consecuencia, el deposito ulterior- 
mente hecho en alguno de los Estados sig- 
natarios antes del vencimiento de los ter- 
minos seiialados, no podra ser anulado por 
hechos ocurridos en el intervalo, ya sea 
especialmente por otro deposito, por la 
publicacion del invento 6 su explotacion, 
o por la venta de ejemplares del dibujo 6 
modelo. 



Article III. 

Any person who shall have regularly 
deposited an application for a patent of 
invention or design or industrial model in 
one of the contracting States shall enjoy, 
for the pm"poses of making the deposit in 
the other States, and under the reserve of 
the rights of third parties, a right of prior- 
ity during a period of twelve months for 
patents of invention, and of four months 
for designs or industrial models. 

Therefore, the deposit subsequently 
made in any other of the signatory 
States before the expiration of these 
periods, cannot be invalidated by acts 
performed in the interval, especially by 
other deposits, by the publication of the 
invention or its working, or by the sale 
of copies of the design or of the model . 



FOUBTH INTERN ATIO NAT. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 105 



Estados Unidos do Mexico: Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel P^rez 
Alonso. 

Republica do Panamd: Belisario Porras. 

Republica do Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Republica do Peru: Eugenio Larrabure y 
IJnanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republica do Salvador: Federico Mejla, 
Francisco Martinez Su^'ez. 

Republica do Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Os quaes, depois de terem apresentado 

as suas credenciaes, consideradas em boa 

e devida forma, concordaram celebrar a 

seguinte Conven^ao. 

Artigo I. 

As nagoes signatarias adoptam esta Con- 
vengao para protecgao das patentes de 
invengao, desenhos e modelos industriaes. 



Etats- Unis Mexicains : Victoriano Salado 
Alvarez, Luis P^rez Verdia, Antonio 
Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 
Ruiz. 

Republique de Nicaragua: Manuel Per^z 
Alonso. 

Republique de Panamd: Belisario Porras. 

Republique du Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Republique du Perou: Eugenio Larrabure, 
y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, 
Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republique du Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Republique V Uruguay: Gonzdlo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
, guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Etats Unis de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 

s Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 

Lesquele, apres s'^tre communique 

leurs pouvoirs et les avoir reconnus comme 

etant en bonne et due forme, ont decide 

de celebrer la Convention suivante: 

Abticle I. 

Les Nations signataires adoptent la pre- 
sente Convention pour la protection des 
Brevets d'Invention, patentes de dessins 
et modMes industriels. 



Aktigo II. 

Toda pessoa de qualquer dos Estados 
eignatarios gozara, em cada um dos outros 
Estados, de todas as vantagens que con- 
cedem as leis relativas a patentes de 
invengao, desenhos e modelos industriaes. 
Portanto, terao a mesma protecgao e iden- 
ticos recursos legaes contra qualquer 
tentativa aos seus direitos, sem que isto 
prejudique o cumprimento das formali- 
dades e condigoes impostas pelas pre- 
scripfoes da legislagao interna de cada 
Estado. 

Artigo III. 

Toda a pessoa que tiver devidamente 
apresentado um requerimento de patente 
de invengao, desenho ou modelo indus- 
trial, n'um dos Estados contratantes, 
gozara de um direito de prioridade, 
durante o prazo de doze mezes, para as 
patentes de invengao, e de quatro mezes 
para os desenhos ou modelos industriaes, 
para que possa fazer a mesma apresentagao 
de requerimento nos outros Estados, sem 
prejudicar direitos de terceiro. 

Portanto, a apresentagao anteriormente 
feita em algum dos Estados signatarios, 
antes do vencimento dos prazos marcados, 
nao podera ser annuUada por actos prati- 
cados n'esse intervallo de tempo, quer 
especialmente por outra apresentagao de 
requerimento, por publicagao do invento 
ou exploragao do mesmo, ou pela venda 
de exemplares do desenho ou do modelo. 



Article II. 

, Toute personne de I'un quelconque des 
Etats signataires jouira, dans chacun des 
autres Etats, de tons les avantages ac- 
cordes par les lois relatives aux brevets 
d'invention, patentes de dessins et mo- 
deles industriels. En consequence, elle 
aura la meme protection et recours legaux 
identiques contre toute attaque a ces 
droits, sans prejudice de I'accomplisse- 
ment des formalites et conditions impos^ea 
par les dispositions de la legislation inte- 
rieure de chaque Etat. 

Article III. 

Toute personne qui aurait reguliere- 
ment depose une demande de brevet d'in- 
vention, ou patente de dessins ou modeles 
industriels, dans I'un des Etats contrac- 
tants, jouira d'un droit de priorite pendant 
douze mois pour les brevets d'invention, 
et pendant quatre mois pour les patentes 
de dessins ou modeles industriels, afin 
qu'elle ,puisse faire de depot dans les 
autres Etats, sans prejudice des droits 
d'un tiers. 

En consequence, le depot effectue ul- 
terieurement dans quelqu'un des Etats 
signataires, et avant I'echeance des termes 
ci-dessus indiques, ne pourra etre declare 
nul par des faits survenus dans I'intervalle, 
que ce soit specialement par un autre 
depot, par la publication de I'invention 
ou par sou 1' exploitation, ou par la vente 
d'exemplaires du dessin ou du modele. 



106 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Articulo IV 



Article IV. 



Cuando en los plazos fijados una persona 
haya depositado en varios Estados solici- 
tudes de patente por el mismo invento, 
los derechos resultantes de las patentee aai 
policitadas, seran independientes los unos 
de los otros. 

Serdn tambien independientes de los 
derechos que resulten de las patentes que 
hayan sido adquiridas por el mismo in- 
vento en los paises que no formen parte 
de esta Con vend on. 



When, within the terms fixed, a person 
shall have filed applications in several 
States for the patent of the same inven- 
tion, the rights resulting from patents thus 
applied for shall be independent of each 
other. 

They shall also be independent of the 
rights arising under patents obtained for 
the same invention in countries not par- 
ties to this Convention. 



Articulo V 

Las cuestiones que se susciten sobre 
prioridad de las patentes de invencion, ee 
resolveran teniendo en cuenta la fecha de 
la solicitud de las patentes respectivas en 
los paises en que se otorgaron. 

Articulo VI 

Se considerara invencion: un nuevo 
modo de fabricar productos industriales; 
Vina nueva maquina 6 aparato inecanico 6 
manual que sirva para fabricar dichos pro- 
ductos; el descubrimiento de un nuevo 
producto industrial; la aplicacion de 
medios conocidos con el objeto de con- 
seguir resultados superiores, y todo dibujo 
nuevo, original y de adorno para un 
articulo de la industria. 

El precepto anterior se entendera sin 
perjuicio de lo que disponga la legislacion 
de cada pais. 

Articulo VII 

Cualquiera de los Estados signatarios 
podrd rehusar el reconocimiento de paten- 
tes por algunas de las siguientes causas: ^ 

a) Porque las invenciones 6 descubri- 
mientos hubieren tenido publicidad en 
cualquier pais con anterioridad a la fecha 
de invencion por el solicitante. 

b) Porque hubieren sido registradas, 
publicadas 6 descriptas en cualquier pais 
con un aiio de anterioridad d, la fecha de 
la solicitud en el pais en el cual la patente 
se haya solicitado. 

c) Porque sean de uso publico 6 esten 
en venta en el pais en el cual la patente 
haya sido solicitada, con un ano de ante- 
rioridad 4 la fecha de dicha solicitud. 

d) Porque las invenciones 6 descubri- 
mientos sean de algiin modo contraries i 
la moral 6 ^ la legislaci6n. 



Article V. 

Questions which may arise regarding the 
priority of patents of invention, shall be 
decided with regard to the date of the ap- 
plication for the respective patents in the 
countries in which they are granted. 

Article VI. 

The following shall be considered as in- 
ventions: A new manner of manufactur- 
ing industrial products; a new machine or 
mechanical or manual apparatus which 
serves for the manufacture of said prod- 
ucts; the discovery of a new industrial 
product; the application of known meth- 
ods for the purpose of securing better re- 
sults; and every new, original and orna- 
mental design or model for an article of 
manufacture. 

The foregoing shall be understood with- 
out prejudice to the laws of each State. 



Article VII. 

Any of the signatory States may refuse 
to recognize patents for any of the follow- 
ing causes: 

(a) Because the inventions or dis- 
coveries may have been published in any 
country prior to the date of the invention 
by the applicant; 

(b) Because the inventions have been 
registered, published, or described in any 
country more than one year prior to the 
date of the application in the country in 
which the patent is sought; 

(c) Because the inventions have been 
in public use, or have been on sale in the 
country in which the patent has been 
applied for, one year prior to the date of 
said application; 

(d) Because the inventions or discover- 
ies are in some manner contrary to morals 
or laws. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 107 



Artigo IV. 



Article IV 



Quando nos prazos marcados, qualquer 
pessoa tiver apresentado em varies 
Estados OS requerimentos de patente pelo 
mesmo invento, os direitos resultantes 
das patentee assim requeridos serao inde- 
pendentes uns dos outros. 

Tambem serao independentes dos di- 
reitos resultantes das patentes que tive- 
rem sido adquiridas pelo mesmo invento 
nos paizes que nao formarem parte d'esta 
Convenfao. 

Artigo V. 

As questoes que se suscitarem sobre 
prioridade das patentes de invenfilo, se 
resolverao tendo em conta a data do 
requerimento das patentes respectivas 
nos paizes em que se outorgaram. 

Agtigo VI. 

Considera-se inven^ao, um novo modo 
de fabricar productos industriaes, uma 
nova machina ou apparelho mecanico ou 
manual que servir para fabricar esses 
productos; o descobrimento de um novo 
producto industrial; a applicagao de 
meios conhecidos com o fim de conseguir 
resultados superiores, e qualquer desenho 
novo original e de adorno para um artigo 
industrial. 

A anterior prescripfao regera, sem que 
por isso prejudique o que disponha a 
legislagao de cada paiz. 

Artigo VII. 

Qualquer dos Estados signataidos podera 
negar o reconhecimento de patentes, por 
alguma das seguintes causas: 

a) Porque as inven^oes ou descobri- 
mentos tiverem tido publicidade por 
parte do requerente em qualquer paiz 
antes da data da invengao. 

b) Por terem sido registradas, publica- 
das ou descriptas em qualquer paiz um 
anno antes da data do requerimento, no 
logar em que se tiver requerido a patente. 

c) Por serem de uso publico ou estarem 
a venda no paiz em que a patente tiver 
sido requerida antes de um anno da data 
do mesmo requerimento. 

d) Por serem as invengoes ou desco- 
brimentos contrarios, de alguma forma, a 
moral ou a legislagao. 



Quand, aux delais ci-dessus fixes, une 
person ne aura d^pos^ dans plusieurs 
Etats des demandes de brevets pour la 
meme invention, les droits resultant des 
brevets ainsi sollicit^s seront ind^pend- 
ants les uns des autres. 

Ces droits seront aussi ind^pendants 
des droits qui r^sulteraient des brevets 
ou patentes qui auraient ete acquis pour 
la mSme invention dans les pays qui ne 
font pas partie de cette Convention. 

Article V. 

Les questions qui seront soulevees sur 
la priorite des brevets d' invention, 
seront resolues en tenant compte de la 
date de la demande des brevets respectifs 
dans les pays ou ils auront ete concedes. 

Article VI. 

On considere invention: un nouveau 
systfeme de fabrication de produits in- 
dustriels; une nouvelle machine ou appa- 
reil mecanique ou manuel servant a la 
fabrication des dits produits; la decou- 
verte d'un nouveau produit industriel; 
I'application de moyens connus dans le 
but d'obtenir des resultats superieurs, et 
tout dessin nouveau, original et d'orne- 
ment, pour un article industriel. 

Le precepte precedent se comprendra 
sans prejudice des decisions de la legisla- 
tion de chaque pays. 

Article VII. 

L'un quelconque des Etats signataires, 
pourra refuser la reconnaissance des 
brevets et patentes poui* I'une quelcon- 
que des causes suivantes: 

a) Parce que les inventions ou decou- 
vertes auraient ete rendues publiques 
dans un pays quelconque anterieurement 
a la date de I'invention faite par le 
soUicitant. 

b) Parce qu'elles auraient ete enregis- 
trees, publiees ou docrites, dans un pays 
quelconque, une annee avant la date de 
la demande d'inscription, dans le pays 
ou la patente ou le brevet ait ete sollicite. 

c) Pour etre en usage public ou mises 
en vente dans le pays, ou la patente ou 
le brevet aurait ete sollicite, une annee 
avant la date de ladite demande d'in- 
scription. 

d) Parce que les inventions ou decou- 
vertes seraient de quelque maniere, con- 
traires a la morale ou a la legislation. 



108 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



ARTfcULO VIII 

La propiedad de una patente de inven- 
cion comprende la facultad de gozar de los 
beneficios de la misma, y el derecho de 
cederla 6 transferirla segun las leyes de 
cada pais. 

Articulo IX 

Las personas que incurran en responsa- 
bilidades civiles 6 criminales por danar 6 
periudicar los derechos de los inventores, 
se perseguiran y castigaran con arreglo d las 
leves del pais en que se haya cometido el 
delito ii ocasionado el perjuicio. 



Articulo X 

Las copias certificadas de las patentes 
de invencion en el pais de origen, de 
acuerdo con las leyes de la Nacion, reci- 
biran entera fe y credito como prueba del 
derecho de prioridad, sin perjuicio de lo 
que se dispone en el articulo VII. 

Articulo XI 

Los Tratados sobre patentes de inven- 
cion, dibujos 6 modelos induBtriales 
efectuados con anterioridad entre los 
paises signatarios del presente Convenio, 
seran sustituidos por este desde que quede 
ratificado en cuanto a las relaciones entre 
los Estados signatarios. 



Articulo XII 

Las adhesiones de las Naciones Ameri- 
canas al presente Convenio, serdn dirigi- 
das al Gobierno de la Repiiblica Argen- 
tina, para que las comunique 4 los otros 
Estados. Estas comunicaciones haran las 
veces de canje. 



Articulo XIII 

La Nacion signataria que creyere con- 
veniente desligarse de este Convenio, lo 
hara saber al Gobierno de la Republica 
Argentina; y desues de un aiio de recibida 
la comunicacion, cesara la vigencia de 
este Convenio, en cuanto a la Nacion que 
lo hubiere denunciado. 



En fe de lo cual los Plenipotenciarios y 
Delegados firman la presente Convencion 
y ponen en ella el sello de la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana. 

Hecho y firmado ea la Ciudad de 
Buenos Aires a los veinte dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en espa- 
fiol, ingles, portugufe y frances y deposi- 



Article VIII. 

The ownership of a patent of invention 
comprises the right to enjoy the benefits 
thereof, and the right to assign or transfer 
it in accordance with the laws of the 
country. 

Article IX. 

Persons who incur civil or criminal 
liabilities, because of injuries or damage 
to the rights of inventors, shall be prose- 
cuted and punished, in accordance with 
the laws of the countries wherein the 
offence has been committed or the damage 
occasioned. 

Article X. 

Copies of patents certified in the country 
of origin, according to the national law 
thereof, shall be given full faith and credit 
as evidence of the right of priority, except 
as stated in Article VII. 



Article XI. 

The treaties relating to patents of inven- 
tion, designs or industrial models, previ- 
ously entered into between the countries 
subscribing to the present Convention, 
shall be superseded by the same from the 
time of its ratification in so far as the rela- 
tions between the signatory States are 
concerned. 

Article XII. 

The adhesion of the American Nations 
to the present Convention shall be com- 
municated to the Government of the 
Argentine Republic in order that it may 
communicate them to the other States. 
These communications shall have the 
effect of an exchange of ratifications. 

Article XIII. 

A signatory Nation that sees fit to retire 
from the present convention, shall notify 
the Government of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, and one year after the receipt of the 
communication the force of this Conven- 
tion shall cease, in so far as the nation 
which shall have withdrawn its adherence 
is concerned. 

In witness whereof, the Plenipoten- 
tiaries have signed the present treaty and 
affixed thereto the Seal of the Fourth In- 
ternational American Conference. 

Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires on the twentieth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and 



FOUBTH INTERNATIONAIj CONFEBENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 109 



Artigo VIII. 

A propriedade de uma patente de in- 
venyao comprehende o direito de gozar os 
beneficios da mesina, e o de cedel-a ou 
transferil-a, de accordo com as leis de cada 
paiz. 

Artigo IX. 

As pessoas que incorrerem em responsa- 
bilidades civis on criminaes para causar 
damno aos direitos dos inventores serao 
perseguidas e castigadas, de accordo com 
as leis do paiz onde se tiver commettido 
o delicto ou causado o prejuizo. 



Artigo X. 

As copias authenticadas das patentes 
de invenfao de onde procedem, de 
accordo com as leis da Na^ao merecerao 
inteira fe e credito, como prova do 
direito de prioridade. sem por isso ir 
contra o que prescreve o artigo VII. 

Artigo XI. 

Os Tratados sobre patentes de invengao, 
desenhos ou modelos industriaes, cele- 
brados anteriormente entre os paizes 
signatarios do presente Convenio, serao 
substituidos por este, desde que se ratifi- 
que quanto ^s relagoes entre os Estados 
eiornatarios. 



Artigo XII. 

As adhesoes das Nafoes Americanas ao 
presente Convenio, serao dirigidas ao 
Governo da Republica Argentina para 
que as communiquem aos outros Estados. 
Essas communica9oes farao as vezes de 
permuta. 



Article VIII. 

La propri^t6 d'un brevet d'invention 
comprend la faculty de jouir des b^n^^fices 
de cette invention, et le droit de la c^der 
ou la transferer en fe conformant aux lois 
de chaque pays. 

Article IX. 

Les personnes qui encourraient des 
responsabilit^s, civiles ou criminelles, 
pour avoir nui ou port^ prejudice aux 
droits des inventeurs, seront poursuivies 
et chatiees conform^ment aux lois du 
pays dans lequel I'infraction criminelle 
aurait ete perpetree, ou le prejudice 
caus6. 

Article X. 

Les copies des brevets d'invention cer- 
tifiees dans le pays d'origine, conforme- 
ment aux lois de la Nation recevront 
entiere foi et creance, en tant que preuve 
du droit de priorite, sans prejudice des 
dispositions de I'article VII. 

Article XI. 

Les Traites relatifs aux brevets d'in- 
vention, patentes de dessins ou modeles 
industriels, etablis anterieurement entre 
les pays signataires de la presente Con- 
vention, seront remplaces par ladite, des 
que celle-ci aura ete ratifi^e en ce qui 
concerne le Reglement des relations entre 
les ]6tats signataires. 

Article XII. 

Les adhesions des Nations Am^ricaines 
a la presente Convention, seront adres- 
sees au Gouvernement de la Republique 
Argentine afin que,celui-ci les communi- 
que aux autres Etats. Ces communi- 
cations rempliront le r61e d'ecbange. 



Artigo XIII. 

A Napao signataria que julgar conve- 
niente desligar-se d'este Convenio, fard 
saber ao Governo da Republica Argen- 
tina; e um anno depois de recebida a 
communicagao, cessara a vigencia d'este 
Convenio, relativamente & Na(;ao que o 
tiver denunciado. 



Em fe do que, os Plenipotenciarios e 
Delegados assignam a presente Convenc^ao, 
sellando-a com o sello da Quarta Confe- 
rencia Internacional Americana. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanol, portu- 
guez, inglez e francez, e entregue ao Mini- 



Article XIII. 

La Nation signataire qui voudrait se 
rendre libre de 1' engagement resultant de 
la presente Convention, devra en donner 
a^ds au Gouvernement de la Republique 
Argentine; et apres le delai d'une annee, 
a compter du jour de la reception de cet 
avis, cette Convention cessera d'etre en 
vigueur a I'egard de la Nation qui I'aura 
denonc^e. 

En foi de quoi, les Plenipotentiaries et 
Deiegues signent la presente Convention 
et y apposent le sceau de la Quatriome 
Conference Internationale Americaine. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires le vingti- 
eme jour du mois d'Aotit mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, en anglais, en portugais 
et en franyais, et depose au ]\finist^re des 



110 FOUBTH INTEENATIONAL CONPEEENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



tado en el Ministero de Relaciones Exte- 
riores de la Republica Argentina, a fin de 
que se saquen copias certificadas para 
enviarlas por la via diplomatica d, cada 
uno de los Estadoe signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil — ^Joa- 
quim Mm-tinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Repixblica de Colombia — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Republica de Costa Rica — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba — Carlos Garcia 
V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Por la Republica Dominicana — ^Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Republica de Honduras — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panamd — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peru — Eugenio La- 

rrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
Por la Republica de El Salvador — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su4rez. 
Por la Republica del Uruguay^Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each of the Signatory 
Nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
WTiite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — ^Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili — ^liguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica— Aliiedo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic — Am^rico 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of ^cuac/or— Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras — I^uis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic o/Pfr?;- -Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlo.=! Ah'arez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For the Republic of Salvador — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Siiarez. 
For the Republic of Uruguay — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga, 

For the C-nited States of Venezuela — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. Ill 



sterio das Relayoes Exteriores da Repu- 
blica Argentina, para que se tireni copias 
authenticadas, que serao enviadas, pela 
via diplomat ica, a cada um dos Estados 
Bignatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America.— Beniy 
\Miite, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, .Tohn Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, I-amar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — ..Vntonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 

ledo'^Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
" Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

P6rez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, 

Jos^ Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Affaires Etrang^res de la R^publique Ar- 
gentine, pour qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoyoes, par la 
voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats sig- 
nataires. 

Pour les Elnts-Unis d'Avierique.— Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Eepublique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terrv, Estanislao 
S. Zeballps. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil: — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio de Gama, Jos^ L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica.— 
Alfredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba.- — Carlos 
Garcia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, 
Antonio Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Car- 
bonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — 
Americo Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — - 
Alejandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d^ Haiti. — Con- 
stantin Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Ma- 
nuel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — 
Gonzalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, 
Antonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose 
Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX K. 



CUARTA CONFEEENCIA INTEBNACIONAL AMERICANA 



CONVENCION 

Marcos defdbrica y de comer cio. 

S. S. E. E. los Presidentes de los Estados 
Unidos de America, de la Republica 
Argentina, del Brasil, de Chile, de Co- 
lombia, de Costa Rica, de Cuba, de la 
Republica Dominicana, del Ecuador, de 
Guatemala, de Haiti, de Honduras, de 
Mexico, de Nicaragua, de Panama, del 
Paraguay, del Peru, de El Salvador, del 
Uruguay y de Venezuela; 

Deseando que bus paises respectivos 
fueran representados en la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, envi- 
arondella, debidamente autorizados, para 
aprobar las Recomendaciones, Resolu- 
ciones, Convenciones y Tratados que 
juzgaren utiles para los intereses de 
America, a los siguientes Sefiores Dele- 
gados: 

Estados Unidos de America: Henry "White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar C. 
Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Republica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Estados Unidos del Brasil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L, 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republica de Chile: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republica de Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republica de Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Republica Dominicana: Am^rico Lugo. 
Republica del Ecuador: Alejandro Cdr- 

denas. 
Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estra- 
da. 
Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 

112 



CONVENTION 

Protection of trade-marks 

Their Excellencies the Presidents of 
the United States of America, the Argen- 
tine Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, 
Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, 
Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, 
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, 
Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela; 



Being desirous that their respective 
countries may be represented at the 
Fourth International American Confer- 
ence, have sent thereto, the following 
Delegates, duly authorized to approve the 
recommendations, resolutions, conven- 
tions and treaties which they might deem 
advantageous to the interest of America. 

United States of America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar C. 
Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, Da\'id 
Kinley. 

Argentine Republic: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jos^ A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

United States of Brazil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Republic of Chili: Miguel Cruchaga Tocor- 
nal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anlbal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Republic of Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 

Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 

Republic of Ciiba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Dominican Republic: Americo Lugo. 

Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cardenas. 

Republic of Guatemala: I^uis Toledo Her- 
rarte, Manuel Arroyo, ^Mario Estrada. 

Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 



APPENDIX K. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



CONVENpXO 

Marcos de Fabrica e de Commerdo 

Suas Excellencias os Srs. Presidentes dos 
Estados Unidos da America, da Repub- 
lica Argentina, do Brasil, do Chile, da 
Colombia, da Costa Rica, de Cuba, da 
Republica Dominicana, do Equador, de 
Guatemala, de Haiti, de Honduras, do 
Mexico, de Nicaragua, do Panamd, do 
Paraguay, do Peru, do Salvador, do 
Uruguay e da Venezuela; 

Desejando que os sens respectivos 
paizes estivessem representados na Quarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
mandaram a ella, devidamente autoriza- 
dos, para approvar as resolugoes, recom- 
menda^oes, convengoes e tratados que 
julgarem uteis aos interesses da America, 
08 seguintes Srs. Delegados: 

Estados Unidos da America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
G. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 

Republica Argentina: Anotnio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

Estados Unidos do Brasil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Republica do Chile: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
comal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Republica da Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 

Republica da Costa Rica: Alfredo VoUo. 

Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo d 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
P6rez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Republica Dominicana: Am^rico Lugo. 

Republica do Ecuador: Alejandro Carde- 
nas. 

Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 

Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 

74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 8 



CONVENTION 

Marques dc Fabrique et de Commerce 

LL. EE. les Presidents des Etats-Unis 
d'Amerique, de la R6publique Argentine, 
du Bresil, du Chili, de la Colombie, de 
Costa-Rica, de Cuba, de la Republique 
Dominicaine, de I'Equateur, du Guate- 
mala, d'Haiti, du Honduras, du Mexique, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, du Paraguay, 
du Perou, du Salvador, de I'Uruguay et 
de Venezuela; 

D6sirant que leurs pays respectifs fus- 
sent represent^s a. la Quatrieme Confe- 
rence Internationale Americaine, y en- 
voyerent, dument autorises, pour approu- 
ver les Recommandations, Resolutions, 
Conventions et Traites qu'ils jugeraient 
utiles aux interets de I'Amerique, Mes- 
sieurs les D^legu^s dont les noms suivent: 

Etats - Unis d'Amerique: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 

Republique Argentine: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. Montes de 
Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. 
, Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

Etats- Unis du Bresil: Joaquim Murtinho, 
Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Almeida 
Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da Cunha, 
Herculano de Freitas. 

Republique du Chili: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
cornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Republique de Colombie: Roberto Ancizar, 

Republique de Costa-Rica: Alfredo Volio. 

Republique de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ardstegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
P6rez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Republique Dominicaine: Am^rico Lugo. 

Republique de V Equateur: Alejandro Car- 
denas. 

Republique du Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 

R^pubUque'd' Jlaiti: Constantin Fouchard. 

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114 FOURTH INTERXATIOiSrAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arri- Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arrisiga,. 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Victoriano Sa- 
lado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, An- 
tonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel P^rez 
Alonso. 

Republica de Panamd: Belisario Porraa. 

Republica del Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Republica del Peru:, Eugenio Larrabure y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republica de El Salvador: Federico Mejla, 
Francisco Martinez Sud,rez. 

Republica del Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 

' guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Manuel 

' Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 

Quienes despues de haberse comuni- 

cado sus poderes y encontrdndolos en 

buena y debida forma, han acordado en 

celebrar la siguiente Convencion sobre 

Marcas de Fabrica y de Comercio: 

Articulo I. 

Las Naciones signatarias adoptan esta 
Convencion para la protecci6n de las 
marcas de fabrica y de comercio, y 
tiombres comerciales. 

Articulo II. 

Toda marca debidamente registrada en 
uno de los Estados signatarios se conside- 
rara registrada tambi6n en los demds 
paises de la Union, sin perjuicio de los 
derechos de un tercero y de los perceptos 
de la legislacion interna de cada Naci6n. 

Para gozar de este beneficio, deberd el 
•industrial 6 comerciante interesado en el 
registro de la marca, contribuir, ademas 
de los derechos 6 emolumentos fijados en 
la legislacion interna, con la suma de $50 
(dollars) por una sola vez, que se desti- 
jiai-d, d cubrir los gastos de Registro Inter- 
nacional de la respectiva Qficina. 



ARTfcULO III. 

El deposito de una marca de fabrica 6 
de comercio en uno de los Estados signa- 
tarios, crea a favor del depositante un 
derecho de prioridad durante un plazo de 
seis meses, con el fin de que pueda hacer 
el deposito en los otros Estados. 

En consecuencia, el deposito hecho pos- 
teriormente antes del vencimiento de ese 
plazo, no podrd anularse por actos ejecuta- 
dos en el intervalo, especialmente por 
otro dep6sito, por la publicacion 6 el uso 
de la marca. 



United Mexican States: Victoriano Salado 
Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, Antonio 
Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Estava 
Ruiz. 

Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 
Alonso. 

Republic of Panama: Belisario Porras. 

Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Republic of Peru: Eugenio I^arrabure, y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calder6n, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republic of Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez: 

Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

United States of Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
T\Tio, after having presented their 

credentials and the same ha^dng been 

found in due and proper form, have 

agreed upon the following Convention for 

the Protection of Trade-Marks. 

Article I 

The signatory Nations enter into this 
Convention for the protection of trade- 
marks and commercial names. 



Article II 

Any mark duly registered in one of the 
signatory States shall be considered as 
registered also in the other States of the 
Union, without prejudice to the rights of 
third persons and to the pro^dsions of the 
laws of each State governing the same. 

In order to enjoy the benefit of the fore- 
going, the manufacturer or merchant in- 
terested in the registry of the mark must 
pay, in addition to the fees or charges 
fixed by the laws of the State in which 
application for registration is first made, 
the sum of fifty dollars gold, which sum 
shall cover all the expenses of both Bu- 
reaux for the international registration in 
all the signatory States. 

Article III 

The deposit of a trade-mark in one of the 
signatory States produces in favor of the 
depositor a right of priority for the period 
of six months, so as to enable the deposi- 
tor to make the deposit in the other states. 

Therefore, the deposit made subse- 
quently and prior to the expiration of this 
period, cannot be annulled by acts per- 
formed in the interval, especially by an- 
other deposit, by publication, or by the 
use of the mark. 



FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 115 



Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Estados Unidos do Mexico: Victoriano 
Salaclo Alvarez, Luis P6rez Verdla, An- 
tonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Rufz. 

Hepublica de Nicaragua: Manuel P^rez 
Alonso. 

Republica do Panamd: Belisario Porras. 

Republica do Paraguay: Teodosio Gonzdlez, 
Jos6 P. Montero. 

Republica do Perix: Eugenio Larrabure y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calder6n, Jos^ 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republica do Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Republica do Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pen a, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Estados Unidos da Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, C&ar Zumeta. 
Os quaes, depois de terem apresentado 

as suas credenciaes, que foram considera- 

das em boa e devida forma, deliberaram 

celebrar a seguinte Convenc^ao, sobre 

marcas de fabrica e de commercio. 

Aktigo I. 



Republique du Honduras: Luis Lazo 
, Arriaga. 

Elats-Unis Mexicains: Victoriano Salado 
Alvarez, Luis P6rez Verdia, Antonio 
Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 
Ruiz. 

Republique de Nicaragua: Manuel Per6z 
Alonso. 

Republique de Panama: Belisario Porras. 

Republique du Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jof6 P. Montero. 

Republique du Perou: Eugenio Larrabure, 
y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderi6n, 
Jos^ Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republique du Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Ripublique V Uruguay: Gonzalo Pi.amlrez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
, guez, Juan Jof ^ Am^zaga. 

Etats-Unis de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 
Lesquels, apres s'etre communiqr.6 leurs 

pouvoirs et les avoir reconnus comme 

etant en bonne et due forme, ont decide 

de celebrer la Convention suivante, sur 

les Marques de Fabrique etde Commerce. 

Article I. 



As Nafoes signatarias adoptam esta 
Conveufao para protecfao das marcas de 
fabrica e de commercio e nomas com- 
merciaes . 



Les Nations ssignataires adoptent cette 
Convention pour la protection des Marques 
de Fabrique et de Commerce et des no- 
menclatures commerciales. 



Artigo II. 

Toda a marca devidamente registrada 
em um dos Estados signatarios se conside- 
rara tambem registada nos outros paizes 
da Uniao, sem que isto implique prejuizo 
para os direitos de terceiro e dos preceitos 
da legislajao interna de cada Nagao. 

Para gozar d'este beneficio, devera o 
industrial ou commerciante, interessado 
no registro da marca, contribuir, al6m dos 
direitos ou emolumentos prescriptos na 
legisla^ao interna, com a quantia de 50 
dollars por uma s6 vez, que se destinar4 
para cobrir as despezas do registro inter- 
nacional da respectiva Secretaria. 



Article II. 

Toute marque diiment enregistree dans 
un des Etats signataires, sera consid^r^e 
comme enregistree egalement dans les au- 
tres pays de I'Union, sans prejudice des 
droits d'un tiers et des dispositions de la 
legislation interieure de chaque Nation. 

Pour jouir de ce benefice, I'industriel 
on le commergant inter ess6 a I'enregistre- 
ment de la Marque, devi-a contribuer, en 
sus des droits ou emoluments fixes par la 
legislation interieure, la somme de 60 
dollars, pour une seule fois, somme qui 
sera destinee a couvi-ir les depenses du 
Registre International du Bureau res- 
pectif. 



Artigo III. 

O registro de uma marca de fabrica ou 
de commercio em um dos Estados signata- 
rios, dara, em favor de quern fizer o regis- 
tro, direito de priori dade durante o prazo 
de seis mezes, para que possa fazer o re- 
gistro nos outros Estados. 

Por consequencia, o registro feito pos- 
teriormente antes do vencimento d'esse 
prazo, nao se poderd annullar por actos 
executados n'esse intervallo de tempo, 
especialmente por outro registro, pela 
publicagao ou pelo uso da marca. 



Article III. 

Le depot d'une marque de fabrique ou 
de commerce dans un des Etats signa- 
taires donne naissance, en faveur du d6- 
posant, d'un droit de priorite pendant un 
laps de temps de six mois, afin qu'il puisse 
faire le dep6t dans les autres Etats. 

En consequence, le d6p6t fait post^rx- 
eurement et avant la date de 1' expiration 
de ce terme, ne pourra pas §tre annuM par 
des actes executes dans I'intervalle, sp^- 
cialement par un autre d6p6t, par la pu- 
blication ou I'usage de la marque. 



116 FOURTH USTTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Articulo IV. 

Se considera marca de comercio 6 de 
fdbrica, todo signo, emblema 6 nombre 
especial que los comerciantes 6 indus- 
triales adopten 6 apliquen en sua articulos 
6 productos para distinguirlos de los de 
otros industriales 6 comerciantes que 
fabriquen 6 negocien en articulos de la 
misma especie. 

Articulo V. 

No podrdn adoptarse 6 usarse como 
marca de fdbrica 6 de comercio, las ban- 
daras 6 escudos nacionales, provinciales 6 
municipales; las figuras inmorales 6 escan- 
dalosas; los distintivos que se hay an ya 
obtenido por otros 6 que den lugar d con- 
fusion con otras marcas; las denomina- 
ciones generales de articulos; los retra- 
tos 6 nombres de personas, sin su permiso ; 
y cualquier dibujo que haya sido adop- 
tado como emblema por alguna asocia- 
ci6n fraternal 6 humanitaria. 

El precepto anterior se entenderd sin 
perjuicio de lo que disponga la legislacidn 
interna de cada pals. 

Articulo VI. 

Las cuestiones que se susciten sobre pri- 
oridad del deposito 6 adopcion de una 
marca de comercio 6 de fdbrica, se re- 
solverdn teniendo en cuenta la fecha del 
dep6sito en el pals en que se hizo la 
primera solicitud. 

Articulo VII. 

La propiedad de una marca de comercio 
6 de fabrica comprende la facultad de 
gozar de los beneficios de la misma, y el 
derecbo de ceder su propiedad 6 su uso, 
total 6 parcialmente, de conformidad con 
la legislaci6n interna. 

Articulo VIII. 

La falsificacion, simulacion 6 uso in- 
debido de una marca de comercio 6 de 
fabrica, asi como la falsa indicacion de 
procedencia de un producto, sera prese- 
guida por la parte interesada, de acuerdo 
con las leyes del Estado en cuyo territorio 
ee baya cometido el deli to. 

Se considera como parte interesada, 
para los efectos de este articulo, cualquier 
productor, fabricante 6 comerciante dedi- 
cado a la produccion, fabricacidn 6 comer- 
cio de dicho producto, 6 en el caso de falsa 
indicaci6n de procedencia, el establecido 
en la localidad falsamente indicada como 
de procedencia, 6 en la regi6n en que 
dicba localidad este situada. 



Article IV 

The following shall be considered as 
trade-mark: any sign, emblem, or especial 
name that merchants or manufacturers 
may adopt or apply to their goods or prod- 
ucts in order to distinguish them from 
those of other manufacturers or merchants 
who manufacture or deal in articles of the 
same kind. 

Article V 

The following cannot be adopted or 
used as trade-mark: national, provincial 
or municipal flags or coats-of-arms; im- 
moral or scandalous figures; distinctive 
marks which may have been obtained by 
others or which may give rise to confusion 
with other marks; the general classifica- 
tion of articles; pictures or names of per- 
sons without their permission; and any 
design which may have been adopted as 
an emblem by any fraternal or humani- 
tarian association. 

The foregoing provisions shall be con- 
strued without prejudice to the particular 
provisions of the laws of each State. 

Article VI 

All questions which may arise regard- 
ing the priority of the deposit, or the adop- 
tion of a trade-mark, shall be decided with 
due regard to the date of the deposit in the 
State in which the first application was 
made therefor. 

Article VII 

The ownership of a trade-mark includes 
the right to enjoy the benefits thereof, and 
the right of assignment or transfer in whole 
or in part of its ownership or its use in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of the laws of 
the respective States. 

Article VIII 

The falsification, imitation or unauthor- 
ized use of a trade-mark, as also the false 
representation as to the origin of a prod- 
uct, shall be prosecuted by the interested 
party in accordance with the laws of the 
State wherein the offence is committed. 

For the effects of this article, interested 
parties shall be understood to be any pro- 
ducer, manufacturer or merchant engaged 
in the production, manufacture or traffic 
of said product, or in the case of false rep- 
resentation of origin, one doing business 
in the locality falsely indicated as that of 
origin, or in the territory which said local- 
ity is situated. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 117 



Artigo IV 

Considera-se marca de commercio ou de 
fabrica todo o signal, emblema ou nome 
especial que os commerciantes ou indus- 
tnaes adoptarem ou applicarem nos seus 
artigos ou productos, para os distinguir 
dos de outros industriaes ou commer- 
ciantes que fabricarem ou negociarem em 
artigos da mesma especie. 

Artigo V 

Nao se poderao adoptar ou empregar 
como marcas de commercio ou de fabrica, 
as bandeiras ou escudos nacionaes, pro- 
vinciaes ou municipaes, as figuras im- 
moraes ou escandalosas, os distinctivos 

aue jd outros tiverem escolhido ou que 
em lugar a confusao com outras marcas, 
as denominafoes geraes de artigos, os re- 
tratos ou nomes de pessoas, sem permissao 
expressa, e qualquer desenho que tiver 
fiido adoptado como emblema por alguma 
associagao de protecgao mutua ou humani- 
taria. 

Esta prescripgao regerd sem prejuizo do 
que disponha a legislagao interna de cada 
paiz. 

Artigo VI 

As questoes que se suscitem sobre 
prioridade do artigo ou adop^ao de uma 
marca de commercio ou de fabrica, se 
resolverao tendo em conta a data do re- 
gistro no paiz em que se fizer o primeiro 
requerimento. 

Artigo VII 

A propriedade de uma marca de com- 
mercio ou de fabrica comprehende o di- 
reito de gozar dos beneficios da mesma e o 
■direito de coder a sua propriedade ou o 
eeu uso, total ou parcialmente, de accordo 
com a legisla^ao interna. 

Aktigo VIII 

A falsifica^ao, simula^ao ou uso indevi- 
<io de uma marca de commercio ou de 
fabrica, assim como a falsa indicagao da 
procedencia de um producto, serao per- 
seguidos pela parte interessada, de ac- 
cordo com as leis do Estado em cujo ter- 
ritorio se tiver commettido o delicto. 

Considera-se como parte interessada, 
para os effeitos d'este artigo, qualquer 
productor, fabricante ou commerciante 
que se dedique d producgao, fabrica ou 
commercio d'esse producto; ou, para o 
caso de falsa indicagao de procedencia, 
•que estiver estabelecido na localidade 
falsamente indicada como de procedencia 
ou na regiao em que essa localidade esti- 
ver situada. 



Article IV. 

Est consid^r^ Marque de Commerce 
ou de Fab ri que: tout signe, emblfeme ou 
designation sp^ciale que les commerganta 
ou les industriels adoptent ou appliquent 
a leurs articles ou a leurs produits, afin de 
les distinguer de ceux des autres indus- 
triels ou commergants qui fabriquent ou 
negocient des articles de la mdme espfece. 

Article V. 

Ne pourront pas etre adopt^s ou em- 
ployes comme Marques de Commerce ou 
de Fabrique, les Drapeaux ou Ecussona 
nationaux, provinciaux ou municipaux, 
les figures immorales ou scandaleuses, 
les signes distinctifs deja obtenus par 
d'autres ou qui donneraient lieu k une 
confusion avec d'autres Marques, les de- 
nominations generales d'articles, les por- 
traits ou noms de personnes sans leur 
autorisation, et tout dessin qui ait et6 
adopts comme embl^me par une Soc6te 
fraternelle ou ay ant un but humanitaire. 

La disposition precedente s'entendra 
sans prejudice de ce dont dispose la legis- 
lation interne de chaque pays. 

Article VI. 

Les questions qui pourraient se sou- 
lever au sujet de la priorite du d6p6t ou de 
I'adoption d'une Marque de Commerce ou 
de Fabrique, seront tranchees en tenant 
compte de la date du depot dans le pays 
oil a 6te faite la premiere demande. 

Article VII. 

La propriety d'une Marque de Com- 
merce ou de Fabrique comprend la 
faculte de jouir de ses benefices, et le 
droit de ceder sa propriety ou son usage 
total ou partiel d'accord avec la legisla- 
tion interne. 

Article VIII. 

La falsification, imitation ou usage illi- 
cite d'une Marque de Commerce ou de 
Fabrique, ainsi que la fausse indication 
de la provenance d'un produit, seront 
poursuivis par la partie interessee, d'ac- 
cord avec les lois de I'Etat sur le territoire 
duquel le deiit aura ete commis. 

Est considere comme partie interessee, 
aux fins de cet article, tout producteur, 
fabricant ou commer?ant qui s'occupe de 
la production, fabrication ou commerce 
du dit produit, ou dans le cas de fausse 
indication de provenance, celui qui est 
etabli dans la localite faussement indi- 
qu^e comme lieu de provenance ou bien 
dans la region oil est situee ladite locality. 



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Articulo IX. 

Cualquier persona de uno de los Estados 
Bignatarios podra pedir y obtener, en cual- 
quiera de los otros Estados, ante la autori- 
dad judicial competente, la anulacion del 
registro de una marca de comercio 6 de 
Mbrica, cuando haya solicitado el registro 
de dicha marca 6 de otra cualquiera que se 
pueda confundir en dicho Estado con 
aquella cuya anulacion interese, pro- 
bando: 



Article IX 

Any person in any of the signatory 
States shall have the right to petition and 
obtain in any of the States, through its 
competent judicial authority, the annuU- 
ment of the registration of a trade-mark, 
when he shall have made application for 
the registration of that mark, or of any 
other mark calculated to be confused, in 
such state, with the mark in whose annuU- 
ment he is interested, upon proving: 



a) que la marca, cuyo registro solicita, 
ha sido empleada 6 usada dentro del pais 
con anterioridad al empleo 6 uso de la 
Marca registrada por el registrante, 6 por 
aqu^l 6 aqu^llos de qienes el la hubo; 



b) que el registrante de la marca cuya 
anulacion se pretende, tuviera conoci- 
miento de la propiedad, empleo 6 uso de 
la marca del solicitante en cualquiera de 
los Estados signatarios, con anterioridad 
al empleo 6 uso de la marca registrada por 
el registrante, 6 por aqu61 6 aqu611os de 
quienes ^1 la hubo; 



a) That the mark, the registration 
whereof he solicits, has been employed or 
used within the country prior to the em- 
ployment or use of the mark registered by 
the person registering it, or by the persons 
from whom he has derived title; 

b) That the registrant had knowledge 
of the ownership, employment or use in 
any of the signatory states, of the mark of 
the applicant, the annulhnent whereof is 
sought, prior to the use of the registered 
mark by the registrant or by those from 
whom he has derived title; 



c) que el registrante no tenfa derecho a 
la propiedad uso 6 empleo, de la marca 
registrada, en la fecha de su deposito; 

d) que la marca registrada no hubiera 
sido usada 6 empleada por el registrante 6 
su causa habiente, dentro del plazo que 
marquen las leyes del Estado en que se 
haya verificado el registro. 



c) That the registrant had no right to 
the ownership, employment or use of the 
registered mark on the date of its deposit; 

d) That the registered mark had not 
been used or employed by the registrant 
or by his assigns within the term fixed by 
the laws of the State in which the registra- 
tion shall have been made. 



ARTfcULO X. 

Los nombres comerciales seran prote- 
gidos en todos los Estados de la Union, sin 
oblicaci6n de dep6sito 6 registro, formen 
6 no parte de una marca de fdbrica 6 de 
comercio. 

Articulo XI. 

A los fines indicados en el presente Tra- 
tado se constituye una Union de las 
Naciones Americanas que funcionard por 
medio de dos Oficinas establecidas, una en 
la ciudad de la Havana y otra en la de 
Rio de Janeiro, en completa correlaci6n 
entre si. 



Articulo XII. 

Las Oficinas Intemacionales, tendrAn 
las siguientes funciones: 

1.° — Llevar un registro de los certifi- 
cados de propiedad de marcas de fdbrica 
y de comercio, que se expidan por alguno 
de los Estados signatarios. 

2.° — Reunir cuantos informes y datos 
tengan relaci6n con la proteccion de la 



Article X 

Commercial names shall be protected in 
all the States of the Union, without 
deposit or registration, whether the same 
form part of a trade-mark or not. 

Article XI 

For the purposes indicated in the pres- 
ent Convention a Union of American 
Nations is hereby constituted, which shall 
act through two International Bureaus 
established one in the city of Havana, 
Cuba, and the other in the city of Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil, acting in complete 
accord with each other. 

Article XII 

The International Bureaux shall have 
the folloAving duties: 

1. To keep a register of the certificate* 
of ownership of trade-mark issued by any 
of the signatory states. 

2. To collect such reports and data a» 
relate to the protection of intellectual and 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 119 



Artiqo IX 

Qualquer pessoa de um dos Estados 
signatarios poderd pedir e obter, em qual- 
quer dos outros Estados, da autoridade 
judicial competente, a annuUagao do reg- 
istro de uma marca de commercio ou de 
fabrica, quando tiver requerido o registro 
d'essa marca ou de qualquer outra que 
se puder confundir n'esse Estado com 
aquella cuja annulla^ao desejar, provando: 



a) que a marca cujo registro pede, foi 
empregada ou usada dentro do paiz, ante- 
riormente ao emprego ou uso da marca 
registrada pelo requerente ou por aquelle 
ou aquelles de quem a adquirio; 



b) que a pessoa que registrou a marca 
cuja annullagao se pretende, tinha con- 
hecimento da propriedade, emprego ou 
uso da marca do requerente em cualquer 
dos Estados signatarios, anteriormente ao 
emprego ou uso da marca registrada pelo 
mesmo requerente ou por aquelle ou 
aquelles de quem a adquirio; 



c) que a pessoa que registrou nao tinha 
direito d propriedade, uso ou emprego da 
marca registrada na data do registro; 

d) que a marca registrada nao foi usada 
ou empregada pela pessoa que a registrou 
ou pelo seu representante legal dentro do 
prazo que marquem as leis do Estado em 
que se tiver verificado o registro. 

Artigo X. 

Os nomes commerciaes, serao protegi- 
dos em todos os Estados da Uniao, sem ob- 
rigagao de deposito ou registro, formem ou 
nao parte de uma marca de fabrica ou de 
commercio. 

Artigo XI. 

Para os fins indicados no presente Tra- 
tado constitue-se uma Uniao das Nafoes 
Americanas, que funccionard por meio de 
duas Secretarias, estabelecidas uma na 
cidade de Havana e outra na do Rio de 
Janeiro, relacionadas entre si. 



Article IX. 

, Toute personne ressortissant d'un des 
Etats signataires pourra solliciter et ob- 
tenir, dans n'importe lequel des autres 
Etats, par devant I'autorite judiciare 
comp6tente, I'annulation de i'enregis- 
trement d'une Marque de Commerce ou 
de Fabrique, lorsqu'elle aura demand^ 
I'enregistrement de ladite Marque ou, 
d'une autre quelconque qui puisse se con- 
fondre, dans ledit Etat, avec celles dont 
I'annulation int6resse, devant prouver 
pour ces fins: 

a) Que la Marque, dont il sollicite I'en- 
registrement, a et6 employee ou mise en 
usage dans le pays ant^rieurement ^ 
I'emploi ou usage de la Marque enregis- 
tr^e par la personne qui obtint I'enregis- 
trement ou par celui ou ceux de qui elle 
I'a regue; 

h) Que la personne qui aurait sollicit6 
I'enregistrement de la Marque dont on 
poursuit I'annulation, a eu connaissance 
de la propriete, emploi ou usage de la 
Marque du solliciteur dans n'importe 
lequel des pays signataires, anterieure- 
ment a I'emploi ou usage de la Marque, 
enregistree par la personne qui obtint I'en- 
registrement, ou par celui ou ceux de qui 
elle I'aurait regue; 

c) Que la personne ayant enregistre la. 
Marque n'avait aucun droit a la propri^t^, 
usage ou emploi de la Marque enregistree 
a la date de son depot; 

d) Que la Marque enregistree n'aurait 
pas ete mise en usage ou employee par la 
personne ayant obtenu I'enregistrement 
ou par son ayant droit, dans le delai indi-, 
que par les lois de I'Etat oil aurait eu lieu 
r enregistrement . 

Article X. 

Les designations commerciales seront 
protegees dans tons les Etats de rUnion, 
sans obligation de 'depdt ou d'enregistre- 
ment, qu' elles fassent ou non partie d'une 
Marque de Fabrique ou de Commerce. 

Article XI. 

Aux fins indiquees dans le present 
Traite, il est constituee une Union des 
Nations Americaines, laquelle fonction- 
neraaumoyen de deux Biireaux, etablis^ 
I'un dans la Ville de La Havane et I'autre' 
dans celle de Rio de Janeiro, etant en' 
complete correlation entre eux. 



Artigo XII. 

As Secretarias Internacionaes terao as 
seguintes attribuifoes: 

1.0 Annotar os attestados de proprie- 
dades de marcas de fabrica e de com- 
mercio que forem dados por algum dos 
Estados signatarios. 

2." Registrar quantas informagoes e 
dados se relacionem com a protecgao da 



Article XII. 

Les Bureaux Internationaux seront 
charges des fonctions suivantes: 

1.° Tenir a jour un Registre des certifi- 
cats de propriete de Marques de Fabrique 
et de Commerce, accordes par I'un quel- 
conque des Etats signataires. 

2° Reunir toutes informations et re- . 
seignements qui aient rapport a la pro- 



120 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 



f)ropiedad intelectual e industrial, y pub- 
icarlos y circularlos en las Naciones de la 
Union, asi como suministrarles cualquier 
informaci6n especial que necesiten sobre 
la materia. 

3." — Fomentar el estudio y divulgacion 
de las cuestiones relativas 4 la protecci6n 
de la propiedad intelectual 6 industrial, 
publicando al efecto una 6 mds revistas 
oficiales, en las cuales se insertaran, en su 
totalidad 6 en resumen, los documentos 
que remitan d la Oficina las autoridades 
de los Estados signatarios. 

Los Gobiernos de dichos Estados se 
comprometen a remitir d las Oficinas 
Internacionales Americanas las publica- 
ciones oficiales que contengan declara- 
ciones de registro de marcas, nombres 
comerciales y concesiones de patentee, de 
privilegios, asi como las sentencias de 
nulidad de marcas 6 patentes, pronun- 
ciadas por sus respectivos Tribunales. 

4.° — Comunicar i, los Gobiernos de los 
Estados de la Union cualquiera dificultad 
li obstdculo que se oponga 6 demore la 
eficaz aplicaci6n de esta Convencidn. 

5." — Conciurir con los Gobiernos de los 
Estados signatarios 4 la preparacion de 
Conferencias Internacionales para el 
estudio de legislaciones relativas 4 la pro- 
piedad industrial y las reformas que con- 
venga introducir en el r^imen de la 
Union 6 en los tratados vigentes sobre pro- 
tecci6n de aquellas. Los Direc tores de 
las Oficinas tendr^n el derecbo de asistfr d 
las sesiones de las Conferencias, con voz 
pero sin voto. 

6." — Presentar d los Gobiernos de Cuba 
y de los Estados Unidos del Brasil rela- 
ciones anuales de los trabajos realizados, 
comunicandolos al mismo tiempo d los 
Gobiernos de todos los demas Estados de 
la Uni6n. 

7.° — Iniciar y mantener relaciones con 
Oficinas analogas y con Sociedades 6 
Instituciones, cientificas e industriales, 
para el canje de publicaciones, informes 
y datos que tiendan al progreso del dere- 
cho de la propiedad industrial. 

8.° — Investigar los casos en que las 
marcas de fabrica 6 de comercio, los 
dibujos 6 modelos industriales, no hayan 
eido reconocidos 6 registrados, de acuerdo 
con esta Convencion, por autoridades de 
alguno de los Estados de la Union, comu- 
nicando los hechos e informando las 
razones aducidas al Gobierno del pals de 
origen y li los interesados. 

9.° — Cooperar, como agentes de los 
Gobiernos de las Naciones signatarias, 
ante las autoridades respectivas, al mejor 
desempeilo de cualquiera gestion que 
tenga por objeto promover 6 realizer los 
fines de esta Convencion. 



industrial property and to publish and 
c rculate them among the nations of the 
Union, as well as to furnish them what- 
ever special information they may need 
upon this subject. 

3. To encourage the study and pub- 
licity of the questions relating to the pro- 
tection of intellectual and industrial 
property; to publish for this purpose one 
or more oflicial reviews, containing the 
full tests or digests or all documents for- 
warded to the Bureaus by the authorities 
of the signatory States. 

The Governments of said States shall 
send to the International American 
Bureaus their official publications which 
contain the announcements of the regis- 
trations of trade-marks, and commercial 
names, and the grants of patents and 
privileges as well as the judgments ren- 
dered by the respective courts concerning 
the invalidity of trade marks and patents. 

4. To communicate to the Govern- 
ments of the Union any difficulties or 
obstacles that may oppose or delay the 
effective application of this Convention. 

5. To aid the Governments of the signa- 
tory States in the preparations of inter- 
national conferences for the study of 
legislation concerning industrial prop- 
erty, and to secure such alterations as it 
may be proper to propose in the regula- 
tions of the Union, or in treaties in force 
to protect industrial propertJ^ In case 
such conferences take place, the Dnectors 
of the Bureaus shall have the right to 
attend the meetings and there to express 
their opinions, but not to vote. 

6. To present to the Governments of 
Cuba and of the United States of Brazil, 
respectively, yearly reports of their labors 
which shall be communicated at the same 
time to all the Governments of the other 
States of the Union. 

7. To initiate and establish relations 
with similar Bureaus, and with the scien- 
tific and industrial associations and insti- 
tutions for the exchange of publications, 
information and data conducive to the 
progress of the protection of industrial 
property. 

8. To investigate cases where trade- 
marks, designs, and industrial models, 
have failed to obtain the recognition of 
registration provided for by this Conven- 
tion, on the part of the authorities of any 
one of the States forming the Union, and 
to communicate the facts and reasons to 
the Government of the country of origin 
and to interested parties. 

9. To cooperate as agents for each one 
of the Governments of the signatory 
States before the respective authorities 
for the better performance of any act 
tending to promote or accomplish the ends 
of this convention. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 121 



propriedade intellectual e industrial, e 
publical-08 e fazel-os circular nas Nagoes 
da Uniao, como tambem ministrar qual- 
quer informagao especial que se necessitar 
Bobre a materia. 

3.° Promover o estudo e divulga^ao das 
questoes relativas d protecpao da proprie- 
dade intellectual e industrial, publicando 
para esse fim uma ou mais revistas 
officiaes, nas quaes se enserirao por 
inteiro ou resumidos, os documentos que 
as autoridades dos Estados signatarios 
enviarem d Secretaria. 

Os Governos dos referidos Estados com- 
promettem-se a remetter ds Secretarias 
Internaciouaes Americanas as publicagoes 
oflficiaes que contiverem declaragoes de 
registro de marcas, nomes commerciaes e 
concessoes de patentes, de privilegios, 
assim como as senten^as de nulUdade de 
marcas ou patentes, dadas pelos seus 
respectivoB Tribunaes. 

4.° Communicar aos Governos dos 
Estados da Uniao qualquer difficuldade 
ou obstaculo que se oppuzer ou retardar a 
eflficaz applica^ao d'esta Convengao. 

5.° Contribuir com os Governos dos 
Estados signatarios para a preparagao de 
Conferencias Intemacionaes para o estudo 
de legislagoes relativas d propriedade 
industrial e reformas que convier intro- 
duzir no regimen da Uniao ou nos 
tratados vigentes sobre protecfao das 
mesmas. Os Directores das Secretarias 
terao o direito de assistir ^s sessoes das 
Conferencias, com voz, mas sem voto. 



6.° Apresentar aos Governos de Cuba e 
dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, relagoes 
annuaes dos trabalbos realizados, com- 
municando-os, ao mesmo tempo, aos 
Governos de todos os outros Estados da 
Uniao. 

7.° Iniciar e manter relagoes com 
Secretarias analogas e com sociedades 
4 instituigoes scientificas e industriaes 
para a permuta de publicagoes, relatorios 
e dados que tendam ao progresso do 
direito da propriedade industrial. 

8.° Investigar os casos em que as marcas 
de fabrica ou de commercio e os de- 
senhos o modelos industriaes nao tiverem 
side reconhecidos ou registrados, de ac- 
cordo com esta Convenf ao, por autoridades 
de algum dos Estados da Uniao, communi- 
cando os factos e informando as razoes 
allegadas ao Govemo do paiz de origem 
e aos interessados. 

9.° — Cooperar, como agentes dos Gover- 
nos das Nafoes signatarias, junto as auto- 
ridades respectivas, para o melhor de- 
sempenho de qualquer gestae que tiver 
por objecto promover ou realizar os fins 
d'esta Convenfao. 



tection de la propri^te intellectuelle et 
industrielle, les publier et organiser leur 
circulation daus les Nations de 1' Union, 
fournir 6galement toutes les informations 
sp^ciales que celles-ci soUiciteraient sur 
la matiere. 

3.° Organiser I'etude et la vulgarisation 
des questions relatives k la protection de 
la propri6t6 intellectuelle et industrielle, 
en publiant dans ce but une ou plusieurs 
Revues officielles, dans lesquelles seront 
ins6r6s, en totality ou en resume, les 
documents envoyes au Bm:eau par les 
autorit^s des Etats signataires. 

Les Gouvernements des dits Etats 
prennent 1' engagement de remettre aux 
Bureaux Internationaux Americains, les 
publications officielles qui contiennent 
des declarations d'enregistrement de 
Marques, designations commerciales et 
concessions de patentes, de privileges, 
de mSme que les sentences de nullite de 
marques ou de patentes, prononcees par 
leurs Tribunaux respectifs. 

4.°,Commumquer aux Gouvernements 
des Etats de 1' Union toute difficulty ou 
obstacle qui s'oppose ou retarde I'applica- 
tion efficace de cette Convention. 

5.° Contribuer avec les Gouverne- 
ments des Etats signataires, a la prepara- 
tion de Conferences Internationales, pour 
I'etude de legislations relatives a la 
propriete industrielle et des reformes 
qu'il convient d'introduire dans le re- 
gime de I'Union ou dans les Traites en 
vigueur pour leur protection. Les Direc- 
teiirs des Bureaux axu^ont le droit d'assis- 
ter aux Seances des Conferences, avec 
voix consultative seulement. 

6.° Presenter aux Gouvernements de 
Cuba et des Etats-Unis du Bresil, des 
rapports annuels sur les travaux effectues, 
et les communiquer en meme temps aux 
Gouvernements de tons les Etats de 
I'Union. 

7.° Creer et conserver des relations 
avec des Bureaux analogues et avec dea 
Societes et Institutions Scientifiques et 
Industrielles pour I'echange de publica- 
tions, informations et renseignements 
qui aient trait au progrfes du droit de la 
propriete industrielle. 

8.° Recbercher les cas oti les Marques 
de Fabrique et de Commerce, les Dessins 
et Modeles industriels n'auraient pas ete 
reconnus et enregistres, d'accord avec 
cette Convention, , par les autorites de I'un 
quelconque des Etats de I'Union, com- 
muniquer les faits et les raisons allegues 
au Gouvernement du pays d'origine et 
aux interesses. 

9.° Cooperer comme agents des Gouver- 
nements des Nations signataires, par 
devant les autorites respectives, au 
parfait fonctionnement de toute gestion 
qui aurait pour but de provoquer ou de 
realiser les fins de cette Convention. 



122 FOURTH INTBRNATIONALi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Articulo XIII, 

LaOficinaestablecidaenlaciudad de la 
Habana, tendra a su cargo los registros de 
las marcas de comercio 6 de fabrica que 
procedan de los Estados Unidos de 
America, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Repiiblica 
Doniinicana, El Salvador, Honduras, 
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala y 
Panama. 

La Oficina establecida en la ciudad de 
Rio de Janeiro, tendra a su cargo los 
registros de las marcas de comercio 6 de 
fabrica que procedan del Brasil, Uru- 
guay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, 
Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela y Co- 
lombia. 

Articulo XIV. 

Las dos Oficinas Internacionales se 
consideraran como una sola, y a los efectos 
de unificacion de los registros, se dispone: 

a) que ambas lleven las mismos libros 
y la misma contabilidad, bajo un identico 
eistema; 

b) que cada semana se remitan, reci- 
procamente, copias de todas las solici- 
tudes, registros, comunicaciones y demas 
documentos que se refieran al reconoci- 
miento de los derechos de los propietarios. 



Article XIII, 

The Bureau established in the City of 
Havana, Cuba, shall have charge of the 
registration of trade-marks coming from 
the United States of America, Mexico, 
Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, 
Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa 
Rica, Guatemala and Panama. 

The Biu-eau established in the City of 
Rio de Janeiro, shall have charge of the 
registration of trade-marks coming from 
Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, 
Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, 
Venezuela, and Colombia. 



Article XIV. 

The two International Bureaus shall be 
considered as one, and for the purpose of 
the unification of the registrations it ia 
provided : 

a) Both shall have the same books and 
the same accounts kept under an identical 
system; 

6) Copies shall be reciprocally trans- 
mitted weekly from one to the other of all 
applications, registrations, communica- 
tions and other documents affecting the 
recognition of the rights of owners of 
trademarks. 



Articulo XV. 

Las Oficinas Internacionales se regir^n 
por un mismo Reglamento, redactado de 
acuerdo por los Gobiemos de las Repiib- 
licas de Cuba y los Estados Unidos del 
Brasil, y aprobados por todos los demas 
Estados signatarios. 

Los presupuestos de gastos serdn apro- 
bados por dichos Gobiernos y costeados 
por todos los Estados signatarios, en una 
proporcion igual d la establecida por la 
Oficina Internacional de lae Repiiblicas 
Americanas en Washington, y d, ese res- 
pecto, esas Oficinas estaran bajo el contra- 
lor de los Gobiernos en cuyos palses tengan 
8U asiento. 

Las Oficinas internacionales podran 
adoptar los Reglamentos interiores que 
crean convenientes para el cumplimiento 
de lo estipulado en esta Convenci6n, 
siempre que no esten en contradiccion 
con los t^rminos de ella. 

Articulo XVI. 

Los Gobiemos de las Repiiblicas de Cuba 
y de los Estados Unidos del Brasil proce- 
der^n d la organizaci6n de las Oficinas 
de la Uni6n Internacional, de acuerdo 
con lo estipulado, tan pronto como haya 
sido ratificada esta Convenci6n por las 
dos terceras partes, d lo menos, de las 
Naciones pertenecientes 4 cada grupo. 



Article XV, 

The International Biireaus shall be 
governed by identical regulations, formed 
with the concurrence of the Governments 
of the Republic of Cuba and of the United 
States of Brazil and approved by all the 
other signatory States. 

Their budgets, after being sanctioned 
by the said Governments, shall he de- 
frayed by all the signatory States in the 
same proportion as that established for 
the International Bureau of the American 
Republics at Washington, and in this 
particular they shall be placed under the 
control of those Governments within 
whose territories they are established. 

The International Bureaus may estab- 
lish such rules of practice and procedure, 
not inconsistent with the terms of this 
convention, as they may deem necessary 
and proper to giA^e effect to its pro\'isions. 



Article XVI. 

The Governments of the Republic of 
Cuba and of the United States of Brazil 
shall proceed with the organization of the 
Bureaus of the International Union as 
herein provided, upon the ratification of 
this Convention by at least two-thirds of 
the nations belonging to each group. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMEIUOAN STATES. 123 



Artigo XIII. 

A Secretaria estabelecida na cidade de 
Havana terA a seu cargo os registos das 
marcas de commercio e de fabrica que 
procedam dos Estados Unidos da America, 
Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Republica Domini- 
cana, EI Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, 
Costa Rica, Guatemala e Pananid,. 

A Secretaria estabelecida na cidade do 
Rio de Janeiro terd, a seu cargo os registros 
das marcas de commercio e de fabrica 
procedentes do Brasil, Uruguay, Argen- 
tina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, 
Equador, Venezuela e Colombia. 



Artigo XIV. 

As duas Secretarias Internacionaes 
serao consideradas como uma s6; e, para 
08 effeitos da unificagao dos registros, fica 
estabelecido: 

a): que as duas fagam suas annota^oes 
em livros iguaes, e tenham igual con- 
tabilidade, adoptando identico systema; 

b): que semanalmente se remettam 
reciprocamente, copias de todos os re- 
querimentos, registros, communicagoes e 
mais documentos que se referirem ao 
reconhecimento dos direitos dos proprie- 
tarios. 

Artigo XV. 

As Secretarias Internacionaes se regerao 
por um so regulamento, redigido de con- 
formidade pelos Governos das Republicas 
de Cuba e dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, 
e approvado por todos os outros Estados 
signatarios. 

Os orgamentos das despezas serao ap- 
provados por esses Governos e custeados 
«por todos OS Estados signatarios em pro- 
porgao igual a estabelecida pela Secretaria 
Internacional das Republicas Americanas 
em Washington; e para isso, essas Secre- 
tarias serao fiscalizadas pelos Governos 
em eujos pafzes tiverem a sua sede. 

As Secretarias Internacionaes poderao 
adoptar os regulamentos intemos que 
julgarem convenientes para cumprimento 
do estipulado n'esta Convenjao, comtanto 
que taes regulamentos estejam de accordo 
com OS termos da mesma. 

Artigo XVI. 

Os Governos das Republicas de Cuba e 
dos Estados Unidos do Brasil organizarao 
as Secretarias da Uniao Internacional, de 
accordo com o estipulado, logo que for 
atificada esta Convenpao pelas duas 

rgas partes, pelo menos, das Nagoes 

rtencentes a cada grupo. 



Article XIll. 

Le Bureau installe dans la Ville dc la 
Havane aura a sa charge les registres des 
Marques de Commerce et de Fabrique 
provenant des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, 
du Mexique, de Cuba, d'Haiti, de la 
Republique Doniinicaine, du Salvador, 
du Honduras, de Nicaragua, de Costa- 
Rica, du Guatemala et de Panama. 

Le Bureau installe dans la Ville de Rio 
de Janeiro aura a sa charge les registres de 
Marques de Commerce et de Fabrique 
provenant du Bresil, de I'Uruguay, de 
I'Argentine, du Paraguay, de la Bolivie, 
du Chili, du Perou, de I'Equateur, de 
Venezuela et de la Colombie. 

Article XIV. 

Les deux Bureaux Internationaux 
seront consideres comme ne formant qu'un 
seul, et, aux fins de I'linification des 
Registres, il est dispose: 

a) Que les deux Bureaux aient des 
livres semblables et la meme comptabi- 
lite, d'un systeme identique. 

b) Que chaque semaine ils fassent 
I'echange reciproque des copies de toutes 
les demandes, enregistrements, communi- 
cations et aiitres documents qui aient 
trait a la reconnaissance des droits des 
auteurs ou des proprietaires. 

Article XV. 

Les Bureaux Internationaux seront 
regis par un meme Reglement, redig6 
d'accord par les Gouvernements des Re- 
publiques de Cuba et des Etats-Unis du 
Bresil, et approuve par tous les autres 
Etats signataires. 

Les budgets des depenses seront ap- 
prouves par les dits Gouvernements et 
alimentes par tous les Etats signataires 
dans une proportion egale a celle qu'a 
etablie le Bureau International des Re- 
publiques Americaines a Washington, et 
a ce sujet, ces Bureaux seront sous le- 
controle des Gouvernements des pays ou 
ils ont leur siege. 

Les Bureaux Internationaux pourront 
adopter les Reglements internes qu'ils 
jugeront convenables pour I'accomplisse- 
ment de ce qui est stipule dans cette 
Convention, si toutefois ils ne sont pas en 
contradiction avec les termes de celle-ci. 

Article XVI. 

Les Gouvernements des Republiques 
de Cuba et des Etats-Unis du Brisil, 
procfederont a I'organisation des Bureaux 
de I'Union Internationale, d'accord avec 
ce qui est stipule, aussitot que cette Con- 
vention sera ratifiee par les deux tiers, au 
moins, des Nations appartenant a chaque 
groupe. 



124 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



No serd necesario el establecimiento 
simuMneo de las dos Oficinas, pudiendo 
instalaree una sola, si hubiese el numero 
eenalado de Naciones signatarias. 

ARTfcULO XVII. 

Los tratados sobre marcas de comercio 
6 de fdbrica, celebrados con anterioridad 
entre los Estados signatarios, ser4n sub- 
fitituidos por esta Convencion, desde la 
fecha de su ratificacion, en cuanto d, las 
relaciones entre dichos Estados. 

Articulo XVIII. 

La ratificacidn 6 adhesiones de las 
Naciones Americanas d esta Convencion, 
serdn comunicadas al Gobierno de la 
Republica Argentina, que las bard saber 
i, todos los demds Estados de la Union. 
Esas comunicaciones haran las veces 
de canje. 



ArtIculo XIX. 

El Estado signatario que creyere con- 
veniente desligarse de esta Convenci6n, 
lo hard saber al Gobierno de la Repiiblica 
Argentina, que lo comunicard d los demAs 
Estados de la Uni6n; y un ano despu^s 
de recibida la comunicacion respectiva, 
cesard la vigencia de esia Convenci6n 
respecto del Estado que la hubiera denun- 
ciado. 

En fe de lo cual los Plenipotenciarios y 
Delegados firman la presetite Convenci6n 
y ponen en ella el sello de la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Intemacional Americana. 

Hecbo y firmado en la Ciudad de 
Buenos Aires, d los veinte dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en espa- 
fiol, ingles, portugu^s y frances, y deposi- 
tado en el Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de la Repiiblica Argentina d 
fin de que se saquen copias certificadas 
para enviarlas, por la vfa diplomdtica, d 
cada uno de los Estados signatarios. ■ 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Repiiblica Argentina. — ^Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terrv, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — 
Joaquim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jos6 L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 



The simultaneous establishment of both 
Bureaus shall not be necessary; one only 
may be established if there be the num- 
ber of adherent governments provided for 
above. 

Aeticle XVII. 

The treaties on trade-marks previously 
concluded by and between the signatory 
States, shall be substituted by the present 
convention from the date of its ratifica- 
tion, as far as the relations between the 
signatory States are concerned. 

Article XVIII. 

The ratifications or adhesion of the 
American States to the present Conven- 
tion shall be communicated to the Gov- 
ernment of the Argentine Republic, 
which shall lay them before the other 
States of the Union. These commimi- 
cations shall take the place of an exchange 
of ratifications. 

Article XIX. 

Any signatory State that may see fit to 
withdraw from the present Convention 
shall so notify the Government of the 
Argentine Republic, which shall com- 
mimicate this fact to the other States of 
the Union, and one year after the receipt 
of such communication this Convention 
shall cease with regard to the State that 
shall have withdrawn. 

In Witness Whereof, the Plenipoten- 
tiaries and Delegates sign this Convention 
and affix to it the Seal of the Fourth 
International American Conference. 

Made and signed in the City of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August, in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and filed in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic 
in order that certified copies may be 
made to be forwarded through appro- 
priate diplomatic channels to each one 
of the signatory Nations. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S, Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu . 



rOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 125 



Nao sera necessario estabelecer simulta- 
neamente as duas Secretarias, podendo 
installar-se uma so, se houver o numero, jd 
fndicado, de Na?oes signatarias. 

Aetigo XVII. 

Os tratados sobre marcas de commercio 
ou de fabrica anteriormente celebrados 
entre os Estados eignatarios, serao sub- 
stituidos por esta Convenyao, desde a data 
da sua ratificagao, quanto As relayoes 
entre esses Estados. 

Artigo XVIII, 

A ratificagao on adhesoes das Nagoes 
Americanas a esta Convengao serao com- 
municadas ao Governo da Republica 
Argentina, que as far4 saber a todos os 
outros Estados da Uniao. Essas commu- 
nicafoea farao as vezes de permuta. 



_ II ne sera pas ii6cessaii-e d' organiser 
simultan^ment les deux Bureaux; on 
pourra en installer un seul aussitot qu'il 
y aura le nombre indiqu^ de Nations 
signataires. 

Article XVII. 

Les Traites sur les Marques de Com- 
merce et de Fabrique etablis antcrieure- 
ment entre les Etats signataires, seront 
remplac^s par cette Convention, a partir 
de la date de sa ratification, pour ce qui 
est des relations entre les dits Etats. 

Article XVIII. 

La ratification ou les adh&ions des 
Nations Americaines a cette Convention, 
seront communiqu^es au Gouvernement 
de la R6publique Argentine, lequel en 
donnera connaissance a tous les p9-ys de 
rUnion. Ces communications serviront 
d'^change. 



Artigo XIX. 

O Estado signatario, que julgar con- 
veniente desligar-se d'esta Conven^ao, o 
fara saber ao Governo da Republica 
Argentina, que o communicara aos outros 
Estados da Uniao, e, um anno depois de 
recebida a communicagao respectiva, 
cessara a vigencia d'esta Convenfao, rela- 
tivamente ao Estado que a tiver denun- 
ciado. 

Em fe do que, os Plenipotenciarios e 
Delegados assignam a presente Conven- 
gao e po^m n'ella o sello da Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, portu- 
^ez, inglez e frances, e entregue ao Min- 
isterio das Relajoes Exteriores da Repub- 
lica Argentina, para que se tirem copias 
authenticadas, que serao enviadas, pela 
via diplomatica, a cada um dos Estados 
eignatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina — ^Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocomal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltr4n Mathieu. 



Article XIX. 

L'^fitat signataire qui croirait avanta- 
geux de se d61ier de cette Convention, le 
fera savoir au Gouvernement de la R^- 
publique Argentine, ,qui en fera commu- 
nication aux autres Etats de 1' Union, et 
une annee apr^s la reception de la commu- 
nition respective, cette Convention ces- 
sera d'etre en vigueur pour I'Etat qui 
I'auirat denoncee. 

En foi de quoi, les Plenipotentiares et 
Delegues signent la presente Convention 
et y apposent le sceau de la Quatrieme 
Conference Internationale Americaine. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires le vingti- 
eme jour du mois d'aout mil neuf 
cent dix, en espagnol, anglais portugais, 
et frangais, et depose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrangeres de la Republique 
Argentine, pour qu'il en soit fait des 
copies authentiquees qui seront envoyees, 
par la voie diplomatique, a chacun des 
Etats signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine — ^Antonia 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos., 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil—Joaquim. 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocomal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cru7. Diaz, Beltran 
Mathieu. 



126 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la RepMlica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcfia 

V6Iez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 

Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, 

Antonio Gonzalo Perez, Jos^ M. Carbo- 

nell. 
For la RepMlica Dominicana. — Am^rico 

Lugo. 
For la Repixblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la RepMlica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis 

Lazo Arriaga. 
For los Estados TJnidos Mexicanos. — 

Victoriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For la Repiiblica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

P^rez Alonso. 
For la Republica de Fanamd. — Belieario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Republica del Feru. — Eugenio 

Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de LavaUe y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de el Salvador. — Federico 

Mejla, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
For la Reptiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Colombia.— Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 

Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, 

Antonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbo- 

nell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador.- — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Gvxitemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ptuiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Fanama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Feru. — Eugenio 

Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 
For the United States of Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTPI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 127 



Pela Republica da Colombia — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica — Alfi'edo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba — Carlos Garcfa 
V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald6s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo P6rez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana — ^Am^rico 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti— Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua— Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panamd — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay — Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jos^ P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peril — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos^ Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Colombie — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine — Kva.^- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur — ^Ale- 
jandro Cilrdenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Haiti — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras — Luis 
Lazo Arriaga. 

Pour les JEtats- Unis Mexicains — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua — Manuel 
P6rez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay — Teo- 
dosio Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de I' Uruguay — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Mats- Unis de Venezuela — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX L 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



CONVENCION 

Propiedad literaria y artistica 

S. S. E. E. los Presidentes delos Estados 
Unidos de America, de la Repdblica 
Argentina, del Brasil, de Chile, de Colom- 
bia, de Costa Rica, de Cuba, de la Re- 
piiblica Dominicana, del Ecuador, de 
Guatemala, de Haiti, de Honduras, de 
Mexico, de Nicaragua, de Panama, del 
Paraguay, del Peru, de El Salvador, del 
Uruguay y de Venezuela; 

Deseando que sus paises respectivos 
fueran representados en la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, envi- 
aron 4 ella, debidamente autorizados, para 
aprobar las Recomendaciones, Resolu- 
ciones, Convenciones y Tratados que juz- 
garen utiles a los intereses de America, d 
los siguientes Seiiores Delegados: 
Estados Unidos de America: Henry Wbite, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 0. 
Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Repliblica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Rodriguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Estados Unidos del Brasil: Joaquim Mm"- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
RepMlica de Chile: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 
Repilblica de Colombia: Roberto Anclzar. 
Repilblica de Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Repilblica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Repilblica Dominicana: Americo Lugo. 
Republica del Ecuador: Alejandro Cdr- 

denas. 
Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arri- 
aga. 

128 



CONVENTION 

Literary and artistic copyright 

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the 
United States of America, the Argentine 
Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa 
Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecua- 
dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, 
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, 
Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela; 



Being desirous that their respective 
countries may be represented at the 
Fourth International American Confer- 
ence, have sent thereto the following 
Delegates duly authorized to approve the 
recommendations, resolutions, conven- 
tions and treaties which they might deem 
advantageous to the interests of America: 
United States of America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
Argentine Republic: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Rodriguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
United States of Brazil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republic of Chili: Miguel Cruchaga Tocor- 
nal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anlbal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republic of Colombia: Roberto Anclzar. 
Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republic of Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Dominican Republic: Americo Lugo. 
Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cdrde- 

nas. 
Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo Her- 
rarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga.. 



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CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



CONVEN5AO 

Propriedade litteraria e artistica 

Suas Excellencias, os Srs. Presidentes 
dos Estados Unidos da America, da Repu- 
blica Argentina, do Brasil, do Chile, da 
Colombia, da Costa Rica, da Republica 
Dominicana, do Equador, de Guatemala, 
de Haiti, de Honduras, do Mexico, de 
Nicaragua, do Panama, do Paraguay, do 
Peril, do Salvador, do Uruguay e da 
Venezuela; 

Desejando que os seus respectivos 
paizes estivessem representados na Quarta 
Conferencia Intemacional Americana, 
mandaram, devidamente autorizados para 
appro varem as recommen dadoes, reso- 
lugoes, conven^oes e tratados que julgas- 
sem uteis aos interesses da America, os 
eeguintes Srs. Delegados: 
Estados Unidos da America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Republica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Ro- 
driguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Estados Unidos do Brasil: Joaqulm Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republica do Chile: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
comal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anlbal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 
Republica da Colombia: Roberto Anclzar. 
Republica da Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbon ell. 
Republica Dominicana: Americo Lugo. 
Republica do Equador: Alejandro Cdrde- 

nas. 
Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo He- 
rrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga. 

74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 ^9 



CONVENTION 

Propriite littSraire et artistique 

LL. EE. les Presidents des Etats-TJnis 
d'Amerique, de la Republique Argen- 
tine, du Bresil, du Chili, de la Colombie, 
de Costa-Rica, de Cuba, de la Republique 
Dominicaine, de I'Equateur, du Guate- 
mala, d'Haiti, du Honduras, du Mexique, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, du Paraguay, 
du Perou, du Salvador, de I'Uruguay 
et de Venezuela. 

Desirant que leuns pays respectifs fus- 
sent representes a la Quatrieme Confe- 
rence Internationale Americaine, y en- 
voyerent, dument autorises, pour ap- 
prouver les Recommandations, Resolu- 
tions, Conventions et Traites qu'ils juge- 
raient utiles aux inter^ts de I'Amerique, 
MM. les Deiegues dont les noms suivent: 
Etats- Unis d'Amerique: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Ripublique Argentine: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes de 
Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodriguez 
Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, 
^Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Etats-Unis du Bresil: Joaquim Murtinho, 
Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Almeida 
Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da Cu- 
nha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republique du Chili: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anl- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
Republique de Colombie: Roberto Anclzar. 
Republique de Costa-Rica: Alfredo Volio. 
Republique de Cuba: Carlos Garcia Velez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbon ell. 
Republique Dominicaine: Americo Lugo. 
Ripublique de I'Equateur: Alejandro Cdr- 

denas. 
Republique du Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Republique d'Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 
Republiqxie du Honduras: Luis Lazo Ar- 



riaga. 



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130 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Victoriano 

Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 

Bepublica de Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 

Alonso. 
Republica de Fanamd: Belisario Porras. 
Republica del Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jose P. Montero. 
Republica del Peru: Eugenio Larrabure y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Republica de El Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
Republica del Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Aniezaga. 
Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Quienes despues de haberse comuni- 
cado sus respectivos poderes y encon- 
trandolos en buena y debida forma, ban 
acordado en celebrar la siguiente Con- 
vencion, sobre Propiedad Literaria y 
Artistica. 

Art. 1." — Los Estados signatarios reco- 
nocen y protegen los derechos de Propie- 
dad Literaria y Artistica, de conformidad 
con las estipulaciones de la presents 
Convencion. 

Art. 2.° — En la expresion " obras-li ter- 
ras y artisticas" se comprenden loslibros, 
escritos, folletos de todas clases, cual- 
quiera que sea la materia de que traten, y 
cualquiera que sea el niimero de sus 
paginas; las obras dramdticas 6 dramdtico- 
musicales; las coreograficas, las com- 
posiciones musicales, con 6 sin palabras; 
los dibujos, las pinturas, las esculturas, 
los grabados; las obras fotograficas; las 
esferas astronomicas 6 geogrdficas; los 
pianos, croquis 6 trabajos plasticos rela- 
tives k grografia, geologia 6 topografia, 
arquitectura 6 cualquiera ciencia; y, en 
fin, queda comprendida toda producci6n 
que pueda publicarse por cualquier medio 
de impresion 6 reproduccion. 

Art. 3." — El reconocimiento del derecho 
de propiedad obtenido en un Estado, de 
conformidad con bus leyes, surtira de 
pleno derecho sus efectos en todos los 
demas, sin necesidad de llenar ninguna 
otra formalidad, siempre que aparezca en 
la obra cualquiera manifestacion que 
indique la reserva de la propiedad. 

Art. 4." — El derecho de propiedad de 
una obra litraria 6 artistica, comprende, 
para su autor 6 causahabientes, la f acultad 
exclusiva de disponer de ella, de publi- 
carla, de enajenarla, de traducirla 6 de 
autorizar su traducci6n, y reproducirla en 
cualquier forma, ya total, ya parcial- 
mente. 

Art. 5.° — Se considera autor de una obra 
protegida, salvo prueba en contrario, 4 
ac(uel cuyo nombre 6 pseudonimo cono- 
cido est^ indicado en ella; en consecuen- 



Mexican United States: Victoriano Salado 

Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, Antonio 

Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 

Ruiz. 

Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 

Alonso. 
Republic of Panama: Belisario Porraa. 
Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio Gonzd- 

lez, Jose P. Montero. 
Republic of I^eru: Eugenio Larrabure y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Republic of Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Suarez: 
Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
United States of Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Who, after having presented their cre- 
dentials and the same haAang been found 
in due and proper form, have agreed upon 
the following Convention on Literarj^ and 
Artistic Copyright. 

1st. — The signatory States acknowledge 
and protect the rights of Literary and 
Artistic Property in conformity with the 
stipulations of the present Convention. 

2nd. — In the expression '' literary and 
artistic works" are included books, 
writings, pamphlets of all kinds, whatever 
may be the subject of which they treat, 
and whatever the number of their pages; 
dramatic or dramatico-musical works; 
choreogi'aphic and musical compositions, 
with or without words; drawings, paint- 
ings, sculpture, engravings; photogi-aphic 
works; astronomical or geographical 
globes; plans, sketches or plastic works 
relating to geography, geology or topog- 
raphy, architectm'e or any other science; 
and, finally, all productions that can be 
published by any means of impression or 
reproduction. 

3rd. — The acknowledgement of a copy- 
right obtained in one State, in conformity 
with its laws, shall produce its effects of 
full right, in all the other States, without 
the necessity of compljdng with any 
other formality, provided always there 
shall appear in the work a statement that 
indicates the reservation of the property 
right. 

4th. — The copyiight of a literary or 
artistic work, includes for its author or 
assigns the exclusive power of disposing 
of the same, of publishing, assigning, 
translating or authorizing its translation 
and reproducing it in any form whether 
wholly or in part. 

5th. — The author of a protected work, 
except in case of proof to the contrary, 
shall be considered the person whose 
name or well known nom-de-plume is 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 131 



Estados Unidos do Mexico: Victorian. 
Salado Alvarez, Luis P^rez Verdla, An- 
tonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 
Alonso. 

Republica de Panama: Belisario Porraa. 

Republica do Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Republica do Peru: Eugenio Larrabui'e y 
Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jos6 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republica do Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Republica do Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan .Jose Amezaga. 

Estados Unidos da Venezuela: Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Os quaes, depois de terem apresentado 

as suas credenciaes, que foram considera- 

das em boa e devida forma, deliberaram 

celebrar a seguinte Convengao sobre 

propriedade litteraria e artistica: 

Art. 1.° — Os Estados signatarios recon- 
hecem e protegem os direitos de proprie- 
dade litteraria e artistica, conforme o es- 
tipulado na presente Conven^ao. 

Art. 2.° — Na expressao "obras littera- 
rias e artisticas" se comprehendem os 
livros, escriptos, folhetos de toda a classe, 
qualquer que seja a materia de que tratem, 
e qualquer que seja o numero das suas 
paginas; as obras dramaticas, dramatico- 
musicaes, as coreographicas, . as compo- 
sifoes musicaes, com ou sem palavras, 
03 desenhos, as pinturas, as esculpturas, 
as gravuras, as obras photograpbicas, as 
espheras astronomicas ou geograpbicas, os 
pianos, croquis ou trabalhos plasticos, 
relativos a geograpbia, geologia, topo- 
grapbia, arcbitectura, ou qualquer scien- 
cia, e, finalmente,todaaobraque se puder 
publicar por qualquer meio de impressao 
ou reproducgao. 

Art. 3.° — O reconbecimento do direito 
de propriedade, obtido n'um Estado, de 
accordo com as suas leis, terd,, de pleno 
direito, os mesmos effeitos em todos os 
outros, sem necessidade de preencber 
outra formalidade, sempre que apparecer 
na obra qualquer declaragao, indicando 
que fica reservado o direito de proprie- 
dade. 

Art. 4." — O direito de propriedade de 
uma obra litteraria ou artistica compre- 
bende, para sen autor ou representantes 
legaes, a faculdade exclusiva de dispor 
d'ella, de publical-a, de vendel-a, de 
traduzil-a, ou de autorizar a sua traducfao 
e reproduc^ao, em qualquer forma, quer 
total, quer parcialmente. 

Art. 5." — Considera-se autor de uma 
obra protegida, salvo quando se provar o 
contrario, a pessoa, cujo nome ou pseudo 
nymo conhecido estiver n'ella indicado; 



Etats-Unis Mexicains: Victoriano Salado 
Alvarez, Luis P^rez Verdfa, Antonio 
Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 
Ruiz. 

Republique de Nicaragua: Manuel Per^z 
Alonso. 

Republique de Panama: Belisario Porras. 

Republique du Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Republique du Perou: Eugenio Larrabure 
y Un4nue, Carlos Alvarez Calder6n, 
Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Republique du Salvador: Federico Mejia, 
Francisco Martinez Suarez: 

Republique V Uruguay: Gonzdlo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rod- 
, riguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Etats - Unis de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Lesquels, apres s'etre communique 

leurs pleins pouvoirs et avoir reconnu 

qu'ils etaient en bonne et due forme, ont 

decide de celebrer la Convention suivante 

sur la Propriete Litteraire et Artistique: 

Art. 1. Les ifitats signataires reconnais- 
sent et protegent les droits de propriety 
litteraire et artistique, conformement a ce 
qui est stipule dans la presente Conven- 
tion. 

Art. 2. Dans I'expression "ceuvres lit- 
teraii-es et artistiques " sont compris les 
livres, les ecrits, les brocbures de toutea 
sortes, quels que soient la matiere que Ton 
y traite et le nombre des pages; les oeuvres 
dramatiques ou dramatico-musicales, lea 
ceuvres cboregrapbiques, les compositions 
musicales, avec ou sans paroles, les des- 
sins, les peintures, les sculptures, les 
gravures, les travaux pbotograpbiques, lea 
spbferes astronomiques ou geograpbiques, 
les plans, croquis ou travaux plastiques se 
rapportant a geograpbie, geologie ou 
topograpbie, architecture, ou toute autre 
science; et enfin toute production qui 
puisse se publier au moyen de la presse 
ou de la reproduction. 

Art. 3. La connaissance du droit de 
propriete obtenu dans un Etat, conforme- 
ment h. ses lois, produira de plein droit, 
ses effets dans tons les autres, sans qu'il y 
ait a remplir d' autres formalites, pourvu, 
qu'apparaisse dans I'oeuvre quelque indi- 
cation faisant savoir, que la propriety en 
est reservee. 

Art. 4. Le droit de propriety d'une 
oeuvre litteraire ou artistique comprend, 
pour son auteur ou ses ayant droits, la 
faculte exclusive d'en disposer, de la 
publier, de Faliener, de la traduire ou 
d'en autoriser la traduction, et de la re- 
prod-«ire de quelque maniere que ce soit, 
en tout ou en partie. 

Art. 5. Est consider^ comme auteur 
d'une oeuvre protegee, sauf preuve du 
contraire, celui dont le nom ou le pseudo- 
nyme connu y est indique; en cons^- 



132 FOURTH INTERNATIONAjj CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



cia, se admitira por los Tribunales de los 
diversos paises signatarios, la accidn 
entablada por el autor 6 su representante 
contra los falsificadores 6 infrac tores. 

Art. 6." — Los autores 6 bus causahabi- 
entes, nacionales, 6 extranjeros domici- 
liados, gozaran en los paises signatarios 
los derechos que las leyes respectivas 
acuerden, sin que esos derechos puedan 
exceder el termino de protecci6n acordado 
en el pals de origen. 

Para las obras compuestas de varios 
volumenes que no se publiquen junta- 
mente, del mismo modo que para los 
boletines 6 entregas 6 publicaciones 
peri6dicas, el plazo de propiedad comen- 
zara & contarse, respecto de cada volii- 
men, boletin 6 entrega 6 publicacion 
periodica, desde la respectiva fecha de su 
publicacion. 

Art. 7.° — Se considerara como pais de 
origen de una obra, el de su primera 
publicacion en America y si ella se lia 
verificado simultaneamente en varios de 
los paises signatarios, aquel cuya ley fije 
el termino mas corto de proteccion. 

Art. 8." — La obra que no ob*uvo en su 
origen la propiedad literaria, no sera sus- 
ceptible de adquirirla en sus reediciones 
posteriores. 

Art. 9.° — Las traducciones licitas son 
protegidas como las obras originales. 

Los traductores de obras, acerca de las 
cuales no existe 6 se hubiere extinguido 
el derecho de propiedad garantizado, 
podran obtener, respecto de sus traduc- 
ciones, los derechos de propiedad declar- 
ados en el art. 3.°, mas no podran impedir 
la publicacion de otras traducciones de 
la misma obra. 

Art. 10.° — Pueden publicarse en la 
prensa periodica, sin necesidad de autori- 
zacion alguna, los discursos pronunciados 
6 leidos en asambleas deliberantes, ante 
los tribunales de justicia 6 en las reuniones 
publicas, sin perjuicio de lo que dispon- 
gan a este respecto las leyes internas de 
cada Estado. 

Art. 11." — Las obras literarias, cientifi- 
cas 6 artisticas, cualquiera que sea su 
materia, publicadas en periodicos 6 revis- 
tas de cualquiera de los paises de la Union 
no pueden reproducirse en los otros paises, 
sin el consentimiento de los autores. Con 
la excepcion de las obras mencionadas, 
cualquier articulo de periodico puede re- 
producirse por otros, si ello no ha sido 
expresamente prohibido, debiendo, en 
todo caso, citarse la fuente de donde aquel 
se ha tornado. 

Las noticias y miscelaneas que tienen 
el carticter de mera prensa informativa, 
no gozan de la protecci6n de esta Conven- 
ci6n. 



indicated theiein; consequently suit 
brought by such author or his representa- 
tive against counterfeiters or violators, 
shall be admitted by the Courts of the- 
Signatory States. 

6th. — The authors or their assigns, citi- 
zens or domiciled foreigners, shall enjoy 
in the signatory countries the rights that 
the respective laws accord, without those 
rights being allowed to exceed the term 
of protection gi-anted in the country of 
origin. 

For works comprising several volumes 
that are not published simultaneously, as 
well as for bulletins, or parts, or periodical 
publications, the term of the copyright 
will commence to run, with respect to 
each volume, bulletin, part, or periodical 
publication, from the respective date of 
its publication. 

7th. — The country of origin of a work 
will be deemed that of its first publica- 
tion in America, and if it shall have ap- 
peared simultaneously in several of the 
signatory countries, that which fixes the 
shortest period of protection. 

8th. — A work which was not originally 
copyrighted shall not be entitled to copy- 
right in subsequent editions. 

9th. — Authorized translations shall be 
protected in the same manner as original 
works. 

Translators of works concerning which 
no right of guaranteed property exists, or 
the guaranteed copyright of which may 
have been extinguished, may obtain for 
their translations the rights of property 
set forth in Article 3rd but they shall not 
prevent the publication of other transla- 
tions of the same work. 

10th. — Addresses or discourses deliv- 
ered or read before deliberative assem- 
blies, Courts of Justice, or at public meet- 
ing, may be printed in the daily press 
without the necessity of any authoriza- 
tion, with due regard, however, to the 
provisions of the domestic legislation of 
each nation. 

11th. — Literary, scientific or artistic 
writings, whatever may be their subjects, 
published in newspapers or magazines, in 
any one of the countries of the Union, 
shall not be reproduced in the other coun- 
tries without the consent of the authors. 
With the exception of the works men- 
tioned, any article in a newspaper may be 
reprinted by others, if it has not been ex- 
pressly prohibited, but in every case, the 
source from, which it is taken must be 
cited. 

News and miscellaneous items pub- 
lished merely for general information, do 
not enjoy protection under this Conven-s 
tion. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 133 



■por consequencia, se admittira, nos Tri- 
■bunaes dos diversos paizes signatarios, a 
•acyao promovida pelo autor ou seu repre- 
sentante contra os falsificadores ou infrac- 
tores. 

Art. 6." — Os autorets ou seus represen- 
tantes legaes, iiacionaes, ou estrangeiros 
domiciliados, gozarao, iios paizes signa- 
tarios, dos direitos que as leis d'esses 
paizes concederem, sem que taes direitos 
possam exceder o termo de protec^ao con- 
■cedida no paiz de origem. 

Para as obras compostas de varios tomos, 
nao publicados juntamente, do mesmo 
modo que para os boletins ou distribuigoes 
ou publicafoes periodicas, o prazo da pro- 
priedade principiara a contar-se, respecti- 
vamente, com rela^ao a cada tomo, bole- 
tim, distribuigao ou publicagao periodica, 
•desde a data respectiva da publicayao. 

Art. 7.° — Considera-se como paiz de ori- 
gem de uma obra, o da sua primeira publi- 
•cagao na America; e se ella tiver sido 
feita simultaneamente em alguns dos 
paizes signatarios, aquelle cuja lei fixar o 
termo mais curto de protecgao. 

Art. 8.° — A obra que nao tiver obtido no 
paiz de origem a propriedade litteraria, 
nao sera susceptivel de adquiril-a nas 
•edigoes posteriores. 

Art. 9." — As traducgoes licitas sao pro- 
tegidas como as obras originaes. 

Os traductores de obras que nao tenham 
a garantia do direito de propriedade, ou 
■cujo direito esteja extincto, poderao obter, 
Telativamente as traduc^oes, os direitos de 
propriedade declarados no Art. 3.°, mas 
nao poderao impedir a publica^ao de 
outras traduc^oes da mesma obra. 

Art. 10. — Podem publicar-se na im- 
prensa periodica, sem necessidade de 
autorizagao alguma, os discursos pro- 
nunciados ou lidos em assembleas deli- 
berantes, perante os tribunaes de justiga 
ou nas reunioes publicas, sem prejuizo do 
que disponham, a este respeito, as leis 
internas de cada paiz. 

Art. 11. — As obras litterarias, scientifi- 
<cas ou artisticas, qualquer que seja a sua 
materia, publicadaa em jornaes ou revistaa 
em qualquer dos paizes da Uniao, nao 
poderao ser reproduzidas em outros paizes 
flem o consentimento dos autores . Excep- 
tuando as obras mencionadas, qualquer 
^rtigo de periodico pode ser transcripto 
por outros, ee isso nao tiver sido expressa- 
mente prohibido, devendo em todo caso 
fler citado o periodico do qual se fez a 
extracgao. 

As noticias e miscellaneas, que tenham 
o caracter de mera imprensa informativa, 
nao gozam da protecgao d'esta Convengao. 



q[uence, les Tribunaux des divers pays 
signataires, admettront les poursuites en- 
tamees par I'auteur ou par ses represen- 
tants contre les contrefacteurs ou les in- 
fracteurs. 

Art. 6. Les auteurs ou leurs ayant 
droits, nationaux ou etrangers domicilies, 
jouiront, dans les pays signataires, des 
droits que les lois respectives y accordent, 
sans que ces droits puissent exceder le 
terme de protection accord^ dans le pays 
d'origine. 

Quant aux oeuvres composeea de plu- 
sieurs volumes, qui ne se publieraient pas 
ensemble, ainsi que les bulletins, livrai- 
sons ou publications periodiques, le temps 
de la propri^te commencera a se compter 
pour chaque volume, bulletin, livraison 
ou publication periodique, a partir de la 
date respective de leur publication. 

Art. 7. Sera considere comme pays 
d'origine d'une ceuvre, celui de sa pre- 
miere ■publication en Amerique, et si elle 
s'est effectuee simultan^ment dans plu- 
sieurs des pays signataires, celui dont la 
loi fixe le temps le plus court de protec- 
tion. 

Art. 8. L'ouvrage qui a son origine 
n'obtint pas la propriete litt^raire, ne 
pourra pas I'acquerir pour les editions 
suivantes. 

Art. 9. Les traductions licites sont pro- 
tegees comme les oeuvres originales. 

Les traducteurs d'ouvrages, en faveur 
desquels n'existerait pas, ou serait peri- 
me, le droit de propriete garanti, pour- 
ront obtenir, pour leurs traductions, les 
droits de propriete indiqu^s dans Particle 
3., mais ils ne pourront aucunement s'op- 
poser a la publication d'autres traduc- 
tions des memes ouvrages. 

Art. 10. Par la presse periodique, et 
sans qu'il y ait besoin d'aucune autorisa- 
tion, il pourra Stre publie les discours pro- 
nonces ou lus dans des assemblees delibe- 
rantes, devant les tribunaux de justice ou 
dans les reunions publiques, sans autres 
limites que les dispositions legales in- 
ternes de chaque Etat a ce sujet. 

Art. 11. Les oeuvres litteraires, scienti- 
fiques ou artistiques, quelle que soit la 
matiere qu'on y traite, publiees dans des 
journaux ou dans des revues, de n'im- 
porte quel pays de I'Union, ne peuvent 
etre reproduites en aucun autre sans le 
consentement des auteurs. Exception 
faite des oeuvres mentionnees, tout article 
de journal pourra etre reproduit par d'au- 
tres journaux, si le premier ne le defend 
pas expressement, et en tout cas, en repro- 
duisant un article, la som-ce devra en etre 
indiqu^e. 

Les nouvelles, 1' ensemble des faits 
divers, qui n'ont que le caractere de sim- 
ple presse informative, ne jouissent pas de 
la protection de cette Convention. 



134 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Art. 12." — La reproduccion de fragmen- 
tos de obras literarias 6 artistieas en pub- 
licaciones destinadas A la ensenanza 6 para 
crestomatia, no confiere ningiin derecho 
de propiedad, y puede, por consiguiente, 
ser hecha libremente en todos los paises 
signatarios. 

Art. 13.° — Se considerardn reproduc- 
cion es ilicitas, para los efectos de la re- 
sponsabilidad civil, las apropiaciones 
indirectas, no autorizadas, de una obra 
literaria 6 artistica y que no representen 
el carActer de obra original. 

Serd, tambien considerada ilicita la 
reproducci6n, en cualquiera forma, de 
una obra Integra, 6 de la mayor parte de 
ella, acompaiiada de notas 6 comentarios, 
d pretexto de critica literaria, de amplia- 
ci6n 6 complemento de la obra original. 

Art. 14.° — Toda obra falsificada podra 
ser secuestrada en los paises signatarios, 
en que la obra original tenga derecho & ser 
protegida legalmente, sin perjuicio de las 
indemnizaciones 6 las penas en que incur- 
ran los falsificadores, seglin las leyes del 
pais en que el fraude se haya cometido. 



Art. 15.° — Cada uno de los Gobiernos de 
los paises signatarios, conservara la liber- 
tad de permitir, vigilar 6 prohibir qiie 
circulen, se representen 6 expongan, obras 
6 reproducciones respecto de las cuales 
tuviere que ejercer ese derecho la autori- 
dad competente. 

Art. 16.° — La presente Convencidn co- 
menzard d regir entre los Estados signa- 
tarios que la ratifiquen, tres nieses despues 
que comuniquen su ratificaci6n al Gobi- 
erno Argentino, y permanecera en vigor 
entre todos ellos, hasta un ano despues de 
la fecha de la denuncia. Esta denuncia 
serd dirigida al Gobierno Argentino y no 
tendrd efecto, sino respecto del pals que 
la haya hecho. 

En fe de lo cual, loa Plenipotenciarios 
y Delegados firman la presente Conven- 
ci6n y ponen en ella el sello de la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, a los once dias del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espafiol, ingles, 
portugues y francfe y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Republica Argentina, d fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomdtica, d cada uno de los 
Estados signatories. 

Por los Estados TJnidos de America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, 
John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar 0. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley, 



12th. — The reproduction of extracts 
from literary or artistic publications for 
the purpose of instruction or chrestoma- 
thy, does not confer any right of property, 
and may, therefore, be freely made in all 
the signatory countries. 

13th. — The indirect appropriation of 
unauthorized parts of a literary or artistic 
work, having no original character, shall 
be deemed an illicit reproductiom in eo 
far as affects civil liability. 

The reproduction in any form of an en- 
tire work, or of the greater part thereof, 
accompanied by notes or commentaries 
under the pretext of literary criticism or 
amplification, or supplement to the origi- 
nal work, shall also be considered illicit. 

14th. — Every publication infringing a 
copyright may be confiscated in the signa- 
tory countries in which the original work 
had the right to be legally protected, with- 
out prejudice to the indemnities or penal- 
ties which the counterfeiters may have in- 
curred according to the laws of the coun- 
try in which the fraud may have been 
committed. 

15th. — Each of the Governments of the 
signatory countries, shall retain the right 
to permit, inspect, or prohibit the circu- 
lation, representation or exhibition of 
works or productions, concerning which 
the proper authority may have to exer- 
cise that right. 

16th. — The present Convention shall 
become operative between the Signatory 
States which ratify it, three months after 
they shall have communicated their rati- 
fication to the Argentine Government, 
and it shall remain in force among them 
until a year after the date when it may be 
denounced. This denunciation shall be 
addressed to the Argentine Government 
and shall be without force except with 
respect to the country making it. 

In witness whereof, the Plenipoten- 
tiaries have signed the present treaty and 
affixed thereto the Seal of the Fourth In- 
ternational American Conference. 

Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires on the eleventh day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
m Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each one of the signa- 
tory nations through the appropriate dip- 
lomatic channels. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 

White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, 

John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 

Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 

David Kinley. 



POUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 135 



Art. 12. — A reproducgao de fragmentos 
de obras litterarias ou artisticas destinadas 
ao ensino ou a chrestomathias nao dd. 
direito de propriedade, e pode, por conse- 
guinte, ser feita livremente em todos os 
paizes signatarios. 

Art. 13. — Consideram-se reproduc^oes 
illicitas, para os effeitos da responsabili- 
dade ci\'il, as usurpagoes indirectas, nao 
autorizadas, de uma obra litteraria ou 
artistica, e que nao assuma o caracter de 
obra original. 

Sera tambem considerada illicita a 
transcripfao, em qualquer forma, de uma 
obra integra, ou da maior parte d'ella, 
acompanhada de notas ou commentarios, 
a pretexto de critica litteraria, de amplia- 
pao ou complemento da obra original. 

Art. 14.^ — Qualquer obra falsificada 
podera ser sequestrada nos paizes signa- 
tarios, onde a obra original tiver o direito 
de ser protegida legalmente, sem prejuizo 
das indemnizagoes ou penas em que 
incorram os falsificadores, conforme as 
leis do paiz em que a fraude tiver sido 
commettida. 

Art. 15. — Cada um dos Governos dos 
paizes signatarios conservar^aliberdade de 
permittir, fiscalizar ou prohibir que circu- 
lem, se representem ou exponham obras 
ou producgoes sobre as quaes a autoridade 
competente tiver de exercer esse direito. 

Art. 16. — ^A presente Convengao princi- 
piara a vigorar entre os paizes signatarios 
que a ratifiquem, tres mezes depois de ser 
communicada a ratificagao ao Governo 
Argentino, e permanecera em vigencia em 
todos elles, ate um anno depois da data da 
denuncia. Esta denuncia serd feita ao 
Governo Argentino e nao terd effeito senao 
com relajao ao paiz denunciante. 



Em f6 do que, os Plenipotenciarios e 
Delegados assignam a presente Convengao 
e nella p6em o sello da Quarta Conferen- 
cia Internacional Pan- Americana. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
RepubHca Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 



Art. 12. La reproduction de fragments 
d'ceuvres litt^raires ou artistiques dans 
des publications destinies k I'enseigne- 
ment ou pour chrestomathie, ne donne 
aucun droit de propri^t^ et peut, en conse- 
quence, ^tre faite librement dans tons les 
pays signataires. 

Art. 13. Seront reconnues reproductions 
illicites, aux effets de la responsabilit^ 
civile, les appropriations indirectes, non 
autoris^es, d'une ceuvre litt^raire ou 
artistique, et qui ne presentent pas le 
caractfere d'oeuvre originale. 

Sera aussi consideree comme illicite la 
reproduction, quelle qu'en soit la forme, 
d'une ceuvre complete, ou de sa plus 
grande partie, accompagn^e de notes ou 
de commentaires, sous pretexte de cri- 
tique litteraire, d'amplification ou de com- 
plement de Fceuvre originale. 

Art. 14. Toute ceuvre falsifiee pourra 
etre sequestree dans les pays signataires, 
oil r ceuvre originale ait droit a etre prote- 
gee legalement, sans prejudice des in- 
demnites ou des peines encourues par les 
falsificateurs, selon les lois du pays ou 
la fraude aurait ete commise. 



Art. 15. Chaque Gouvernement des 
pays signataires conservera la liberte de 
permettre, de surveiller ou de prohiber 
que circulent, se representent ou s'ex- 
posent les oeuvres ou productions sur 
lesquelles I'autorite competente aurait 
le droit d'exercer son action. 

Art. 16. La presente Convention en- 
trera en vigueur dans les Etats signataires 
qui la «itifieront, trois mois apres qu'ils 
auront communique leur ratification au 
Gouvernement Argentin, et restera en 
vigueur entre eux pendant une annee k 
partir de la date de la d^nonciation. 
Cette denonciation sera adressee au 
Gouvernement Argentin et n'aura d' effets 
qu'envers le pays qui I'aura faite. 

En foi de quoi, les Plenipotentiaires et 
Deiegu^s signent la presente Convention 
et y apposent le sceau de la Quatrifeme 
Conference Internationale Americaine. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le onzieme 
joiu" du mois d'Aout mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, en anglais, en portugais et en 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des Af- 
faires Etrangeres de la R^publique Argen- 
tine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoy^es,, par 
la voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etata 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats- Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 



136 FOURTH INTERN-ATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For La Repdblica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Eidavi, Mamiel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Josp A. Terry, Estanisko S. 
Zeballos. 

For los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitaa. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Repiiblica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Repiiblica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Repiiblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Foucbard. 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdla, Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Repiiblica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Repiiblica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Repiiblica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jos6 P. Montero. 
Por la Repiiblica del Peru. — Eugenio Lar- 

rabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

derdn, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Repiiblica de el Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Gracia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdfe, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo P6rez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — ^Am^rico 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay .—Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 137 



Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Miirtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos^ L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

PelaRepublica do Chile.— Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

P$la Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Velio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba.— Carlos Garcia 

V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbon ell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Am^rico 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala.- — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin Fou- 

chard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peril. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

r6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo Ra- 
mirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. 
Rodriguez, San Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos,. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anfbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Am4r- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de I'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cdrdenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manual Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Hditi. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victor- 
iano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belis- 
ario Porras. 

Pour la Ripublique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jos^ P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Feder- 
ico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Ame- 
zaga. 

Pour les Etats Unis de Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX M. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



CONVENCION 

Reclamadones pecuniarias 

S. S. E. E. los Presidentes de los Estados 
Unidos de America, de la Republica Ar- 
gentina, del Brasil, de Chile, de Colombia, 
de Costa Rica, de Cuba, de la Republica 
Dominicana, del Ecuador, de Guatemala, 
de Haiti, de Honduras, de Mexico, de 
Nicaragua, de Panamd, del Paraguay, del 
Peru, de El Salvador, del Uruguay y de 
Venezuela; 

Deseando que sus palses respectivos fu- 
eran representados en la Cuarta Conf eren- 
cia Internacional Americana, enviaron d, 
ella, debidamente autorizados para apro- 
bax las Recomendaciones, Resoluciones, 
Convenciones y Tratados, que juzgaren 
titiles & los intereses de America, d. los 
siguientes Senores Delegados: 

Estados Unidos de America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 

Repiiblica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

Estados Unidos del Brasil: Joaquim Miir- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Repilblica de Chile: Miguel Cruchaga To- 
comal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Republica de Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 

RepMlica de Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 

Repilblica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia V61ez, 
Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
P6rez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

Repilblica Dominicana: Am6rico Lugo. 

RepHblica del Ecuador: Alejandro Carde- 
nas. 

Repilblica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo Her- 
rarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Repilblica de Haiti: Constantin Foucbard. 
138 



CONVENTION 

Pecuniary claims 

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the 
United States of America, Argentine Re- 
public, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa 
Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecua- 
dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mex- 
ico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, 
Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela; 



Being desirous that their respective 
countries may be represented at the 
Fourth International American Confer- 
ence have sent thereto the following dele- 
gates, duly authorized to approve the rec- 
ommendations, resolutions, conventions 
and treaties which may be advantageous 
to the interests of America : 

United States of America: Henry White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 

Argentine Republic: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

United States of Brazil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Republic of Chili: Miguel Cruchaga Tocor- 
nal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anibal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Republic of Colombia: Roberto Ancfzar. 

Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 

Republic of Cuba: Carlos Garcfa V61ez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
P6rez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

Dominican Republic: Am^rico Lugo. 

Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cdrdenaa. 

Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo Her- 
rarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 



APPENDIX M. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



CONVENfAO 

Reclamagdes pecuniarias 

Suas Excellencias, os Srs. Presidentes 
dos Estados Unidos da America, da Repu- 
blica Argentina, do Brasil, do Chile, da Co- 
lombia, da Costa Rica, de Cuba, da Repu- 
blica Dominicana, do Equador, de Guate- 
mala, de Haiti, de Honduras, do Mexico, 
de Nicaragua, do Panamd, do Paraguay, 
do Peru, do Salvador, do Uruguay e da 
Venezuela: 

Desejando que os seus respectivos 
paizes estivessem representados na Quar- 
ta Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
mandaram a ella devidamente autori- 
zados para approvar as recommen- 
dagoes, resolugoes, conven^oes e trata- 
dos que julgassem uteis aos interesses da 
America, os seguintes Srs. Delegados: 

Estados Unidos da America: Hemy White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 

Republica Argentina: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rod- 
riguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 

Estados Unidos do Brasil: Joaquim Mur- 
tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Al- 
meida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Republica do Chile: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anl- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Republica da Colombia: Roberto Ancizar. 

Republica da Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio. 

Republica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia V61ez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
P^rez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Republica Dominicana: Americo Lugo. 

Republica do Equador: Alejandro Car- 
denas. 

Republica de Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 

Republica de Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 



CONVENTION 

Reclamations picuniaires 

LL. EE. les Presidents des Etats-Unis 
d'Amerique, de la R6publique Argentine, 
du Bresil, du Chili, de Colombie, de 
Costa-Rica, de Cuba, de la Republique 
Dominicaine, de I'Equateur, du Guate- 
mala, d'Haiti, du Honduras, du Mexique, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, du Paraguay, 
du P6rou, du Salvador, de 1' Uruguay et 
de Venezuela. 

D^sirant que leurs pays respectifa 
fussent representes a la Quatrifeme Con- 
ference Internationale Am6ricaine, y 
envoyerent, dtiment autorises, pour ap- 
prouver les Recommandations, Resolu- 
tions, Conventions et Traites qu'ils juge- 
raient utiles aux interets de I'Amerique, 
Messieui's les Delegues dont les noms 
suivent: 

Etats-Unis d'Amerique: Hemy White, 
Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John 
Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar 
C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, David 
Kinley. 
Republique Argentine: Antonio Bermejo, 
Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. Montes 
de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodri- 
guez Larreta, Carlos Salas, Jose A. 
, Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos. 
Etats-Unis du Bresil: Joaquim Murtinho, 
Domicio da Gama, Jose L. Almeida 
Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao da 
Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Republique du Chili: Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anf- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 
Republique de Colombie: Roberto Ancizar. 
Republique de Costa-Rica: Alfredo VoUo. 
Republique de Cuba: Carlos Garcia V^lez, 
Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo de 
Quesada y Ai-ostegui, Antonio Gonzalo 
Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Republique Dominicaine: Americo Lugo. 
Republique de I Equateur: Alejandro Car- 
denas. 
Republique du Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Republique d' Haiti: Constantin Fouchard. 

139 



140 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Repiiblica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga. Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga. 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, An- 
tonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 
Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 

Alonso. 
Republica de Panamd: Belisario Porras. 
Repilblica del Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jose P. Montero. 
Repilblica del Peru: Eugenio Larrabiu^e y 
Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Oalder6n, Jose 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Rep-dblica de El Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
Repilblica del Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose de Amezaga. ■ 
Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Quienes despues de haberse comuni- 
■cado sus plenos poderes y encontrdndolos 
en buena y debida forma, ban acordado 
en celebrar la siguiente Convenci6n sobre 
Reclamaciones Pecuniarias. 

Art. 1.° Las Altas Partes .Contratantes 
se obligan 4 someter &, arbitraje todas las 
reclamaciones por danos y perjuicios 
pecuniarios que sean presentadas por sus 
ciudadanos respectivos y que no puedan 
resolverse amistosamente por la via diplo- 
mdtica, siempre que dichas reclamaciones 
sean de suficiente importancia para 
ameritar los gastos del arbitraje. 



United Mexican States: Victoriano Salado 

Alvarez, I^uis Perez Verdia, Antonio 

Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 

Ruiz. 

Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel P6rez 

Alonso. 
Republic of Panama: Belisario Porras. 
Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio Gon- 
zalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Republic of Peru: Eugenio Larrabure y 
Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, Jos6 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Republic of Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Ro- 
driguez, Juan Jose de Amezaga. 
United States of Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 
Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
"Who, after having presented their cre- 
dentials and the same having been found 
in due and proper form, have agreed upon 
the following Convention on Pecumary 
Claims. 

1st. The High Contracting Parties 
agree to submit to arbitration all claims 
for pecuniary loss or damage which may 
be presented by their respective citizens 
and which cannot be amicably adjusted 
through diplomatic channels, when said 
claims are of sufficient importance to 
warrant the expense of arbitration. 



El fallo se dictard conforme d los prin- 
ciples del Derecho Internacional. 

Art. 2.° Las Altas Partes Contratantes 
convienen en someter d la decision de la 
Corte Permanente de Arbitraje de La 
Haya, todas las controversias que sean 
materia de este tratado, d no ser que las 
partem se pongan de acuerdo para consti- 
tuir una jurisdicci6n especial. 

En caso de someterse d la Corte Perma- 
nente de La Haya, las Altas Partes Contra- 
tantes aceptan los preceptos de la Con- 
vencion, relatives d la organizacion del 
tribunal arbitral, d los procedimientos d 
que este haya de sujetarse y d la obliga- 
•cion de cumplir el fallo. 

Art. 3°. Si hubiera acuerdo para consti- 
tuir una jurisdiccion especial, se consigna- 
ran en el convenio que asf lo decida, las 
reglas conforme d las cuales funcionard el 
tribunal que haya de conocer las cu- 
eationes d que den origen las reclama- 
ciones d que se refiere el Art. 1°. del 
presente Tratado. 

Art. 4°. Este Tratado entrara en vigor 
inmediatamente despues del 31 de Di- 
ciembre de 1912, en que expira el Con- 
venio sobre Reclamaciones Pecuniarias 



The decision shall be rendered in ac- 
cordance with the principles of Interna- 
tional Law. 

2nd. The High Contracting Parties 
agree to submit to the decision of the per- 
manent Court of Arbitration of The 
Hague all controversies which are the 
subject-matter of the present Treaty, un- 
less both parties agree to constitute a 
special jurisdiction. 

If a case is submitted to the Permanent 
Court of The Hague, the High Contracting 
Parties accept the provisions of the treaty 
relating to the organization of that arbitral 
Tribunal, to the procedure to be followed 
and to the obligation to comply with the 
sentence. 

3rd. If it shall be agi-eed to constitute a 
special jurisdiction, there shall be pre- 
scribed in the convention by which this is 
determined the rules according to which 
the tribunal shall proceed, which shall 
have cognizance of the questions involved 
in the claims referred to in Article 1st. of 
the present treaty. 

4th. The present Treaty shall come into 
force immediately after the thirty-first of 
December, 1912, when the treaty on pe- 
cuniary claims, signed at Mexico, on Janu- 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 141 



Republica de Honduras: Luis Lazo Ar- 

riaga. 
Eslados Unidos do Mexico: Victoriano 
Salado Alverez, Luis P^rez Verdla, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 
Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel Perez 

Alonso. 
Republica do Panamd: Belisario Porras. 
Republica do Paraguay: Teodosio Gonza- 
lez, Jose P. Montero. 
Republica do Pent: Eugenio Larrabure y 
XJn^nue, Carlos Alvarez Oalder6n, Jos6 
Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
Republica do Salvador: Federico Mejia, 

Francisco Martinez Su^rez. 
Republica do Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramirez, 
Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodri- 
guez, Juan Jose de Amezaga. 
Estados Unidos da Venezuela: Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 
Estes Senhores, depois de terem apre- 
eentado as suas credenciaes, tendo estas 
sido consideradas em boa e devida forma, 
resolveram celebrar a seguinte Conven^ao 
sobre reclama^oes pecuniarias: 

Art.° 1.° — As Altas Partes Contratantes 
obrigam-se a submetter ao arbitramento 
todas as reclama?oes por damnos e pre- 
juizos pecuniarios que forem apresenta- 
das pelos sens respectivos cidadaos e que 
nao puderem ser resolvidas amigavel- 
mente pela via diplomatica, sempre que 
essas reclamafoes forem de sufRciente 
importancia para cobrir as despezas do 
arbitramento. 

A sentenca sera dada de accordo com os 
principios do Direito Internacional. 

Art." 2° — As Altas Partes Contratantes 
concordam em submetter a decisao da 
Corte Permanente de Arbitramento da 
Haya, todas as controversias que forem 
materia d'este tratado, a nao ser que as 
partes se ponham de accordo para consti- 
tuir uma jurisdic^ao especial. 

No caso de se submetterem a C6rte 
Permamanente da Haya, as Altas Partes 
Contratantes acceitam os preceitos da 
Convenfao relativos a organizapao do 
Tribunal Arbitral, aos processos aos quaes 
este tiver de sujeitar-se, e d obrigagao de 
cumprirem a sentenya. 

Art.° 3." — Se houver accordo para con- 
stituir uma jurisdicfao especial, se con- 
signarao no Convenio que assim o decidir, 
as regras, de accordo com as quaes func- 
cionara o Tribunal que tiver de tomar 
conhecimento das questoes que deram 
origem ds reclama^oes de que trata o art. 
1.° do presente tratado. 

Art.°4.° — Este tratado entrard em vigen- 
cia logo depois do dia 31 de Dezembro de 
mil novecentos e doze, em que expira o 
prazo do Convenio sobre reclamagoes 



Republique du Honduras: lAiie Lazo 
, Arriaga. 
Etats- Unis Mexicalns: Victoriano Salado 

Alvarez, Luis P^rez Verdia, Antonio 

Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva 

Ruiz . 
Republique de Nicaragua: Manuel P^rez 

Alonso. 
Republique de Panama: Belisario Porras. 
Republique du Paraguay: Teodosio Gan- 

zalez, Jos^ P. Montero. 
Republique du Pirou: Eugenio I^arrabure, 

y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calderon, 

Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 
RSpublique du Salvador: Federico Mejla, 

Francisco Martinez Sudrez: 
Republique de V Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramf- 

.rez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. 
, Rodriguez, Juan Jose de Amezaga. 
Etats Unis de Venezuela: Manuel Diaz 

Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 

Lesquels, apres s'etre communique 
leurs pouvoirs et les avoir trouves en 
bonne et due forme, ont decide de celebrer 
la Convention suivante sur les Reclama- 
tions Pecuniares: 

Article 1. Les Hautes Parties Con- 
tractantes s'obligent a soumettre a I'arbi- 
trage toutes les reclamations pour dom- 
mages et prejudices p^cuniaires qui 
pourraient ^tre presentees par leurs 
ressortissants respectifs et qui ne pour- 
raient pas ^tre regimes a I'amiable par la 
voie diplomatique, tout autant que les 
dites reclamations seront d'une impor- 
tance suffisante pour justifier les frais 
d'arbitrage. 

Le jugement sera rendu conformement 
aux principes du Droit International. 

Art. 2. Les Hautes Parties Contrac- 
tantes conviennent de soumettre a la 
decision de la Cour Permanente d'Arbi- 
trage de la Haye, toutes les controverses 
qui se rapporteraient a ce traits, a moins 
que les parties ne se mettent d'accord 
pour constituer une jurisdiction sp^ciale. 

Au cas oil I'affaire en litige serait sou- 
mise a la Cour Permanente de la Haye, 
les Hautes Parties Contractantes accep- 
tent les dispositions de la Convention 
relatives a F organisation du Tribunal 
d'Arbitrage, a la procedure que celui-di 
est oblige de suivre, et a I'obligation 
d'ex^cuter le jugement rendu. 

Art. 3. Au cas oil il y aurait accord pour 
constituer une juridiction speciale, seront 
consignees dans la Convention qui en 
decidera ainsi, les regies suivant lesquellea 
fonctionnera le Tribunal qui devra con- 
naitre les questions que peuvent soulever 
les reclamations auxquelles fait allusion 
r Article 1. du present traite. 

Art. 4. Ce Traite entrera en vigueur 
immediatement apres le 31 D^cembre 
1912, date a laquelle expire la Convention 
sur les Reclamations Pecuniaires, sign^e a 



142 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



firmado en Mexico el 31 de Enero de 1902 
y prorrogado por la Convenci6n suscripta 
en Rio de Janeiro el 13 de Agosto de 1906. 



ary 31, 1902, and extended by the treaty 
signed at Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 
1906, expires. 



Quedara en vigor por tiempo indefinido, 
tanto para las naciones que en aquella 
fecha lo hubieren ratificado, cuanto para 
las que lo ratifiquen posteriormente. 

Las ratificaciones seran transmitidas al 
Gobierno de la Repiiblica Argentina, el 
que las comunicar4 a las otras partes 
contra tantes. 

Art. 5.° Cualquiera de las naciones que 
ratifique el presente tratado, podrd de- 
nunciarle por su parte, dando aviso 
escrito de su prop6sito, con dos anos de 
anticipacion. 

Este aviso sera transmitido al Gobierno 
de la Republica Argentina y por inter- 
medio de este a las otras Partes Contra- 
tantes. 

Art. 6.° El tratado de Mexico con- 
tinuara en vigor, aim despu^s del 31 de 
Diciembre de 1912, con relacion 4 cuales- 
quiera controversias que hayan side 
sometidas antes de esa fecha a arbitrage, 
bajo las condiciones de dicho Tratado. 

En fe de lo cual, los Plenipotenciarios 
y Delegados firman la presente Con- 
vencion y ponen en ella el sello de la 
Cuarta Conferencia Internacional Ameri- 
cana. 

Hecho y firmado en la Ciudad de 
Buenos Aires a los once dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en 
espafiol, ingles, portugu^s y frances, y 
depositado en el Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de la Repiiblica Argentina d 
fin de que se saquen copias certificadas 
para enviarlas, por la via diplomdtica, d, 
cada uno de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett ^oore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley.' 

Por la Republica Argentina.— Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Dqmicio da Gama, 
Jos6 L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Repilblica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancfzar. 
Por la Repilblica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Velio. 



It shall remain in force indefinitely, as 
well for the nations which shall then have 
ratified it as those which shall ratify it sub- 
sequently. 

The ratifications shall be transmitted to 
the Government of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, which shall communicate them to the 
other Contracting Parties. 

5th. Any of the nations ratifying the 
present Treaty may denounce it, on its 
own part, by giving two years notice in 
writing, in advance, of its intention so to 
do. 

This notice shall be transmitted to the 
Government of the Argentine Republic 
and through its intermediation, to the 
other contracting Parties. 

6th. The treaty of Mexico shall continue 
in force after December 31, 1912, as to any 
claims which may, prior to that date, 
have been submitted to arbitration under 
its provisions. 



In witness whereof, the Plenipotentia- 
ries and Delegates sign this Convention 
and affix to it the Seal of the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference. 

Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the eleventh day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in the Spanish, English, Portuguese 
and French languages, and filed in the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argen- 
tine Republic, in order that certified 
copies may be taken to be forwarded 
through the appropriate Diplomatic chan- 
nels to each one of the Signatory Nations. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejc, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — ^Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Anclzar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFEKENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 143 



pecuniarias, assignado na cidade de Mex- 
ico a 31 de Janeiro de mil novecentos e 
dois e prorogado pela Conven9ao assignada 
no Rio de Janeiro a 13 de Agosto de mil 
novecentos e seis. 

Ficard vigorando por tempo indetermi- 
nado, tanto para as Nag oes que n'aquella 
data o tiverem ratificado, como para as 
que ratificarem posteriormente. 

As ratificagoes serao remettidas ao Go- 
vemo da Republica Argentina, que as 
communicard ds outras partes contra- 
tantes. 

Art.° 5.° — Qualquer das na^oes que rati- 
ficarem presente tratado podera denun- 
cial-o, dando aviso por escripto com dois 
annos de antecipa^ao. 

Este aviso sera transmittido ao Governo 
da Republica Argentina, e por intermedio 
d'este ds outras partes contratantes. 

Art.° 6.° — tratado do Mexico conti- 
nuara vigorando, ainda depois do dia 31 
de Dezembro de 1912, com relagao a 
quaesquer controversias que tenham sido 
submettidas ao arbitramento antes d'essa 
data, conforme as condigoes do referido 
tratado. 

En f^ do que, os Plenipotenciarios e 
Delegados assignam a presente Conveng ao 
e p6em n'ella o sello da Quarta Confer- 
encia Internacional Americana. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos- 
Aires, aos onze dlas do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, por- 
tuguez, inglez, e francez, e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Relafoes Exteriores da Re- 
publica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos Esta- 
dos signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America, — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Mm-tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



Mexico le 31 Janvier 1902 et prorogee par 
la Convention signee a Rio de Janeiro le 
13 AoGt 1906. 



II restera en vigour pour un temps inde- 
fini, aussi bien pour les Nations qui I'au- 
ront ratifie a cette date que pour celles qui 
le ratifieront post^rieurement. 

Les ratifications seront transinises au 
Gouvernement de la Republique Argen- 
tine qui les communiquera aux autrea 
parties contractantes. 

Art. 5. Chacune des Nations qui ratifie 
le present Traite pourra le denoncer, pour 
ce qui la concerne, en donnant, avec deux 
ans d'anticipation, avis par ecrit de sa 
decision. 

Cet avis sera transmis au Gouvernement 
de la Republique Argentine, et par I'in- 
term^diaire de celui-ci, aux autres parties 
contractantes. 

Art. 6. Le traite de Mexico continuera 
a etre en vigueur, meme apres la date du 
31 Decembre 1912, poHr toutes les contro- 
verses qui auraient pu 6tre soumises a 
I'arbitrage avant cette date, dans les con- 
ditions dudit traits. 

En foi de quoi, les Plenipotentiaires et 
Delegues signent la presente Convention 
et y apposent le sceau de la Quatrieme 
Conference Internationale Americaine. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires le onzieme 
jour du mois d'Aout mil neuf cent-dix, en 
espagnol, portugais, anglais et frangais et 
depose au Ministere des Affaires Etran- 
geres de la Republique Argentine afin 
qu'il en soit fait des copies authentiquees 
qui seront envoyees, par la voie diplo- 
matique, a chacun des Etats signataires. 



Pour les Etats -Unis d'Am^ique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. , 

Pour les Etats -Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 



144 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la RcpubUca de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Odrdenas. 
For la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fou chard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis 

Lazo Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Meodcanos. — 

Victorian Salado Alvarez, Luis P4rez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

P6rez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panamd.^-Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Rep-tibhca del Paraguay. — ^Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P.'Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peru. — Eugenio Lar- 

rabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez 

Calder6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de el Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
For la Repilblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Am^zaga, 
For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zu- 

meta. 



For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fou chard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Imis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unduue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
r6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavelle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejla, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Am^zaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — ^Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, C4sar Zumeta. 



rOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



145 



Pela Bepublica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V41ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald6y, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Porez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Am^rico 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. —Ale]sindro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — I.iuis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Perii. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
r6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Job^ M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Am6- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cdrdenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Hatti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats - Unis Mexicains. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — ^Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisa- 
rio Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay.- — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Pirou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M,. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats- Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



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APPENDIX N. 



RESOLUTION— AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE SIXTH OF THE RULES AND 

REGULATIONS. 

The Fourth International American Conference, assembled in Buenos Aires, resolves: 

To amend article 6 of the rules and regulations in the following terms: 

Article 6. The Fourth International American Conference shall have the following 
committees: 

First. For the study of Topic I (rules and credentials); five members. 

Second. For the study of Topics II, V, XIII, and XIV; seven members. 

Third. For the study of Topic III; one member from each delegation. 

Fourth. For the study of Topic IV; one member from each delegation. 

Fifth. For the study of Topic VI; one member from each delegation. 

Sixth. For the study of Topic VII; seven members. 

Seventh. For the study of Topic VIII; one member from each delegation. 

Eighth. For the study of Topic IX; one member from each delegation. 

Ninth. For the study of a convention between the American Republics concerning 
patents, trade-marks, and labels; seven members. 

Tenth. For the study of a convention between the American Republics concern- 
ing intellectual and literary property and Topic XII; seven members. 

Eleventh. For the study of Topic XI; seven members. 

Twelfth. For the study of Topic XV; one member from each delegation. 

Thirteenth. Publications; five members. 

Fourteenth. General welfare; five members. 

(July 14, 1910.) 

(This resolution was signed in the minutes and not as a separate document.) 

147 



APPENDIX 0. 



CUARTA CONFEEENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



EESOLUCION. 

Conmemoracion de la Independencia de las 
Republicas Americanas. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Eepublicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus Gobier- 
nos, ban aprobado la siguiente Resolucion: 

La Conferencia resuelve : 

Que por obra y concurso de las naciones 
de America, se erija, en la ciudad de 
Buenos Aires, un edificio apropiado para 
que en el se exhiban permanentemente 
los productos del suelo y de la industria 
de todas ellas, con el nombre de "Expo- 
sicion Pan-Americana de Productos." 

Que se conmemore la Independencia 
de las Republicas Americanas, con la 
publicacion de una obra artistica en que 
figuren, en facsimile, las actas de la Inde- 
pendencia de todos los paises, una resena 
bistorica de los magnos sucesos conmemo- 
rados y las efigies de los proceres de la 
emancipacion. 

Que para la ejecucion de estas obras y 
para solicitar de los Gobiemos el concurso 
necesario a su acabamiento y conserva- 
cion, se constituya en la ciudad de 
Buenos Aires una Junta, compuesta de 
los representantes diplomaticos de las 
Republicas Americanas acreditados ante 
el Gobierno Argentine y de la Comision 
Pan-Americana Argentina. Las Repu- 
blicas Americanas que no tuvieren mision 
acreditada en Buenos Aires, podran ba- 
cerse representar en la Junta. 

Que se recomiende a las Comisiones 
Pan-Americanas de los respectivos paises, 
colaborar con esta Junta, para la mas 
adecuada y pronta realizaci6n de estas 
obras. 

Hecbo y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, & los cuatro dias del mes de Agosto 
de mil novecientos diez, en espanol, 
portugu^Sj ingles y frances, y depositado 
en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 

148 



RESOLUTION. 

Commemoration of the Independence of the 
American Republics. 

Tbe undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their Governments, have 
approved the following Resolution: 

The Conference resalves : 

That with the concurrence and active 
collaboration of the American Nations, 
there be erected in the City of Buenos 
Abes a suitable building in which the 
products of their soil and industries shall 
be permanently exhibited, to be called 
the "Pan American Products Exhibi- 
tion." 

That the Independence of the Ameri- 
can Republics be commemorated by the 
publication of an artistic book in which 
the Declaration of Independence of each 
one of the countries shall be reproduced 
in facsimile, together with a historical 
summary of the great events commemo- 
rated and the portraits of the leaders in 
the cause of Emancipation. 

In order to carry out these works and 
to solicit from the several Governments 
the necessary aid for their completion and 
maintenance, a Council shall be formed 
in the City of Buenos Aires composed of 
the Diplomatic Representatives of the 
American Republics accredited to the 
Argentine Government and by the 
Argentine Pan American Commission. 
Those Republics who have no Diplo- 
matic Representatives accredited to 
Buenos Aires may, nevertheless, be rep- 
resented on the Council. 

That the Pan American Commissions of 
the respective countries be asked to col- 
laborate with this Council in Buenos Aires 
towards the due and speedy realization of 
these objects. 

Done and signed in the City of Buenoa 
Aires, on the fourth day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Mnistry of 



APPENDIX 0. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLtrglo 

CommemoraQao da Independencia das Re- 
publicas Americanas 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus Governos, 
appro varam a seguinte Resolugao: 

A Conferencia resolve: 

Que, por acgao e concurso das nagoes da 
America, se levante na cidade de Buenos 
Aires um edificio apropriado para que 
n'elle se exponham permanentemente os 
productos do solo e da industria de todas 
ellas, com o titulo de "Exposigao Pan- 
Americana de Productos. " 

Que se commemore a Independencia 
das Republicas Americanas com a publi- 
cagao de uma obra artistica em que figu- 
rem, em facsimile, as actas da Indepen- 
dencia de todos OS paizes, uma resenha 
historica dos grandes f eitos commemorados 
e as effigies dos proceres da emancipagao. 



Que, para a execugao d'estas obras e 
para requerer dos Governos o concurso 
necessario a sua terminagao e conservagao, 
se constitua na cidade de Buenos Aires 
tuna Junta composta dos representantes 
diplomaticos das Republicas Americanas 
acreditados junto ao Governo Argentino 
e da Commissao Pan-Americana Argen- 
tina. As Republicas Americanas, que 
nao tiverem missao acreditada em Buenos 
Aires, poderao fazer-se representar na 
Junta. 

Que se recommende as Commissoes 
Pan-Americanas dos respectivos paizes 
que collaborem com esta Junta para a 
adequada e prompta realizagao d'estas 
obras. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos quatro dias do mez de Agosto 
de mil novecentos e dez, em hespandol, 
portuguez, inglez e francez, e entregue 
ao Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 



RESOLUTION 

Commemoration de V Independance des R6- 
publiques Americaines 

Les soussignes, delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrifeme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dii- 
ment autorises par leiu*s Gouvernementa, 
ont approuve la Resolution suivante: _ 

La Quatrieme Conference Internation- 
ale Americaine resout: 

Que, par Taction et le concours des 
Nations d'Amerique, il soit erige dans 
la Ville de Buenos-Aires un edifice 
approprie pour qu'il y soit exbibe en 
permanence les produits du sol et de 
I'industrie de toutes celles-ci, sous le 
nom d' "Exposition Pan -Americaine de 
Produits." 

Que r Independance des Republiques 
Americaines soit commeiAoree par la 
publication d'une oeuvre artistique oil 
Sgureront en fac-similes les actes de 
T Independance de tons les pays, une 
description historique des grands evene- 
ments commemores et les portraits des 
grands hommes de 1' emancipation. 

Que pour 1' execution de ces ceuvrea 
et poiur solliciter des Gouvemements le 
concours necessaire a leur achevement et 
a leur conservation, il sera constitue 
dans la Ville de Buenos-Aires un ConseU 
compost des Representants diplomat- 
iques des Republiques Americaines ac- 
cr^dites pres le Gouvernement Argentin, 
et de la Commission Pan-Americaine 
Argentine. Les Republiques Ameri- 
caines qui n'auraient pas de mission 
accreditee a Buenos-Aires pom-ront se 
faire representor dans le Conseil. 

Qu'il soit recommande aux Commis- 
sions Panamericaines des pays respectifs 
de collaborer avec ce Conseil pour la 
realisation la plus adequate et la plus 
prompte de ces oeuvres. 

Fait et signe dans la Ville de Buenos 
Aires, le quatre aout mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, en portugais, en anglais et en 
frangais, et dlpose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrangeres de la Republique 

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150 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



de la Reptiblica Argentina, d fin de que ae 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomdtica, A cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados TJnidos de America: Henry 

White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 

Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 

Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 

Reinsch, David Kinley. 
Por la Republica Argentina: Antonio 

Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 

Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 

Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 

Zeballos. 
Por los Estados TJnidos del Brasil: Joa- 

quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 

Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 

Gastao da Cunha. 
Por la Reptiblica de Chile: Miguel Cru- 

chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 

Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu, 

Alejandro Alvarez. 
Por la Republica de Colombia: Roberto 

Anclzar. 
Por la Repdblica de Costa Rica: Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Repilblica de Cuba: Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ardstegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana: Am^rico 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador: Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Por la Repilblica de Guatemala: Luis To- 
ledo Herra^-te, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti: Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Reptiblica de Honduras: Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos: Vic- 

toriana Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua: Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Rep'Ablica de Panamd: Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay: Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peril: Carlos Alvarez 

Calder6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
Por la Republica de el Salvador: Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
Por la Republica del Uruguay: Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. dePena, Antonio M. 

Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 

in order that certified copies be made for 

transmission to each of the signatory 

nations, through appropriate diplomatic 

channels. 

For the United States of America: Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paiil S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. • 

For the Argentine Republic: Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

For the United States of Brazil: Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha. 

For the Republic of Chili: Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu, 
Alejandro Alvarez. 

For the Republic of Colombia: Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba: Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic: Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel An'oyo, Mario Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti: Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States: Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama: Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru: Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For the Republic of Salvador: Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For the Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo 

Ramii-ez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela: Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



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Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas, que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America: . — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lemar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reisch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Monies de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil.- — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Josi L 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Curz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu, Ale- 
jandro Alvarez. 

Pela Republica da Colombia: — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis Toledo 
Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario Por- 

ras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peril. — Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos daVenezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait dea 
copies authentiqu^es qui seront envo- 
y^es^par la voie diplomatique k chacun 
des Etats signataires. 

Pour les Etats- Unis d'Amirique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
ZeballoS; 

Pour les Etats- Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Co- 
decido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu, Alejandro Alvarez. 

Tour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. "^j 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Alfredo 
Voho. ^ 

Pour laRepubliqu£ de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — 
Americo Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de I'Equateur — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique de Guatemala — Luis 
Toledo Harrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d' Haiti — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique de Honduras.- — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victoriano 
Salado Alverez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belis^io 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Carlos Al- 
varez Calderon, Jose Antonio de La- 
valle y Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, 
Antonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos4 
Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



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CTJARTA CONFERENCIA INTEIINACIONA.L AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION. 

Congreso del Cnfe. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Intemacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respec- 
tivos Gobiemos, ban aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Intemacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

Considerandose en vigor la Resolucion 
de Rio de Janeiro, sobre la reunion de un 
Congreso cafetero en Sao Paulo, se reserva 
al Gobiemo del Brasil la fijacion de la 
oportunidad para bacer la convocatoria 
de dicho Congreso. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, a los doce dias del mes de Agosto 
de mil novecientos diez, en espanol, ingles, 
portugues y frances, y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Republica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diploma tica, a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul 
S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Mm-tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltr^n Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — ^Alfredo 

Volio. 

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RESOLUTION. 

Coffee Congress. 

The undersigned. Delegates of the 
Fourth International American Confer- 
ence, duly authorized by their respective 
Governments, have approved the follow- 
ing Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference assembled at Buenos Aires 
resolves; 

That, whereas the resolution of Rio de 
Janeiro relative to the meeting of the 
Coffee Congress at Sao Paulo is in force, 
the appointment of the date for the con- 
vocation of the said Congress shall rest 
with the Government of Brazil. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twelfth day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
in English, Spanish, Portuguese and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each of the signatory 
nations, through appropriate diplomatic 
channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
"\^Taite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 
For the Republic of Chili. — IMiguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
.For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



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KESOLUpAO 

Congresso do Cafe 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Intemacional Americana, devid- 
amente autorizados pelos seus Governos, 
approvaram a seguinte Resolugao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Intemacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve : 

Considerando-se em vigor a Resolugao 
de Rio de Janeiro sobre a reuniao, em Sao 
Paulo, de um Congresso sobre o Cafe, 
reserva-se ao Governo do Brasil o direito 
de marcar a data opportuna para a con- 
voca^ao d'esse Congresso. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos doze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue 
ao Ministerio das RelagSes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
por via diplomatica, a cada um dos Esta- 
dos signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — ^Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — -Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — AKredo 

Volio. 



RESOLUTION 

Congrh du Cafe 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Republi- 
ques representees a la Quatrieme Confer- 
ence Internationale Americaine, dument 
autorises par leurs Gouvernements res- 
pectifs, ont approuve la Resolution sui- 
vante : 

La Quatrifeme Conference Internation- 
ale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout : 

Considerant comme etant en vigueur la 
Resolution de Rio de Janeiro sur la re- 
union d'un Congres du Cafe a Sao Paulo, 
il est reserve au Gouvernement du Bresil 
le soin de fixer la date opportune pour 
I'inauguration dudit Congres. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le douze 
aout mil neuf cent dix, en espagnol, an- 
glais, portugais et frangais, et depose au 
Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres de la 
Republique Argentine, pour qu'il en soit 
fait des copies certifiees pour etre en- 
voyees, par voie diplomatique, a chacuB 
des Etats signataires. 



Pour les Etats- Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos, 

Pour les Etats- Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L, 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — ^Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Md- 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Yolio. 

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154 FOUETH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Por la Repuhlica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 
Por la Repuhlica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Repuhlica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Repuhlica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Repuhlica de Ilaiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
Por la Repuhlica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Repuhlica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Repuhlica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Repuhlica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Repuhlica del Perli. — Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
Por la Rep uhlica de El Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suaxez. 
Por la Repuhlica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zu- 

meta. 



For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia. 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Maria 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States.- — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Niccragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru.- — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



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155 



Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos ^stados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peril. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador.— Fedenco 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republic/ue Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cdrdenas. 

Pour la Republique de Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d' Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique de Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Arriaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis P^rez Verdlaj 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Carlos Al- 
varez Calderon, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle 
y Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Feder- 
ico Mejla, Francisco Martinez Sudrez, 

Pour la Republique de I'Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



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CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 

Reorganizacidn de la Uni6n de las Repilb- 
licas Americanas 

Los que siiscriben, Delegados de las Re- 
pdblicas representadas en la Cixarta Con- 
lerencia Internacional Americana, debi- 
damente autorizados por sus Gobiernos, 
ban aprobado la sigiiiente Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Oonferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires re- 
suelve: 

Artictjlo I. 

Mantener con el nombre de "Union de 
ias Republicas Americanas" la Uni6n 
Internacional creada por la Primera Oon- 
ferencia y coofirmada en la Segunda y 
Tercera, y, con el nombre de " Uni6n Pan- 
Americana ' ' la Institucion que le sirve de 
6rgano y tiene su asiento en el edificio de 
las Republicas de America, en Wdahing- 
ton, D. G. 

Las atribuciones de la "Uni6n Pan- 
Americana" son las siguientes: 

1.° — Compilar y distribuir datos comer- 
ciales y proporcionar inf ormes al respecto ; 

2° — Compflar y clasificar todo lo refer- 
ente d los Tratados y Convenciones entre 
las Republicas Americanas y entre estas 
y otros Estados y a la legislacion vigente 
en ellas; 

3.° — Informar sobre asuntos de educa- 
ci6n; 

4." — Informar sobre las cuestiones de- 
signadas por el aciierdo de las Oonferencia 
Internacionales Americanas; 

5." — Oontribuir a obtener la ratificaci6n 
de las Resoluciones y Oonvenciones 
adoptadas por las dif erentes Conferencias ; 

6.° — Dar cumplimiento a todas las 
Resoluciones que le hayan impuesto 6 
ie impongan las Conferencias Inter- 
nacionales Americanas; 

7.° — Funcionar como Oomisi6n Perma- 
nente de las Conferencias Internacionales 
Americanas, iniciando proyectos que 
pudieran ser incluldos entre los temas de 
la proxima Oonferencia; estos proyectos 

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RESOLUTION 

Reorganization of the " Union of American 
Republics " 

The undersigned. Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented in the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following reso- 
lution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference resolves: 

Article I. 

To maintain, under the name of "Union 
of American Republics," the Interna- 
tional Union created by the First, and 
confirmed by the Second and Third Con- 
ferences, and^ under the name of "Pan 
American Union" the institution serving 
as its Agent and having its seat in the 
Building of the American Republics in 
the City of Washington, D. 0. 

The pm-poses of the "Pan American 
Union" are the following: 

1. To compile and distribute commer- 
cial information and prepare commercial 
reports. 

2. To compile and classify information 
respecting the treaties and Conventions 
between the American Republics, and 
between these and other States, and their 
legislation in force. 

3. To supply information on educa- 
tional matters. 

4. To prepare reports on questions as- 
signed to it by resolutions of the Inter- 
national American Conferences. 



6. To carry into effect all resolutions, 
the execution of which may have been 
assigned or may hereafter be assigned to 
it by the International American Con- 
ference. 

7. To act as a Permanent Committee of 
the International American Conferences, 
recommending topics to be included in 
the program of the next Conference; 
such projects must be communicated to 



APPENDIX Q. 



CXJARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUfAO. 

Reorganizagao da Uniao das Republicas 
Americanas 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos sous Govemos, 
appro varam a seguinte resolugao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

Artigo I 

Manter com o nome de "Uniao das Re- 
publicas Americanas" a Uniao Interna- 
cional creada pela Primeii'a Conferencia 
e confirmada na Segunda e Terceira, e 
com nome de "Uniao Pan- Americana " 
a Instituigao que Ihe serve de orgao e 
tern sua sede no edificio das Republicas 
da America, em Washington D. C. 

As attribuigoes da "Uniao Pan-Ameri- 
cana" sao as seguintes: 

1." — Compilar e distribuir dados com- 
merciaes e proporcionar informagoes a 
respeito; 

2.° Compilar e classificar tudo o que se 
refere aos tratados e convengoes entre as 
Republicas Americanas e entre estas e 
outros Estados, e a legislasao n'ellas 
vigente; 

3.° — Informar sobre assumptos de edu- 
ca^ao; 

4° — Informar sobre as questoes desig- 
nadas por accordo das Conferencias Inter- 
nacionaes Americanas; 

5.° — Contribxiir para obter a ratificapao 
das resolugoes e convengoes adoptadas 
pelas differentes Conferencias; 

6.° — Dar cumprimento a todas as reso- 
lugoes que Ihe tenham confiado ou con- 
fiem as Conferencias Intemacionaes Ame- 
ricanas; 

7.° — Funccionar como Commissao Per- 
manente das Conferencias Intemacionaes 
Americanas, propondo projectos que pos- 
sam ser incluidds entre os themas da prox- 
ima Conferencia; estes projectos deverao 



RESOLUTION. 

Reorganisation de I' Union des Republiques 
Amiricaines 

Les soussign^s, D^legues des Repu- 
bliques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dti- 
ment autorises par leiirs Gouvemements, 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante. • 

La Quatrieme Conference Internatio- 
nale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout : 

Article I. 

Maintenir sous le nom "Union des Re- 
publiques Americaiaes" I'Union Interna- 
tionale creee par la Premiere Conference 
et confirmee par la Seconde et par la 
Troisieme, et sous le nom "Union Pan- 
Americaine" 1' Institution qui lui sert 
d'organe et a son siege dans I'edifice des 
Republiques d'Amerique, a Washington, 
B.C. 

Les attributions de 1' "Union Pan- 
Americaine" sont les suivantes: 

1.° Compiler et distribuer des ren- 
seignements commerciaux et foumir des 
rapports a ce sujet; 

2° CompUer et classer tout ce qui se 
rapporte aux Traites et Conventions entre 
les Republiques Americaines et entre 
celles-ci et autres Etats, ainsi qu'a la 
legislation en vigueur chez elles; 

3.° Faire des rapports sur les questions 
d' education; 

4.° Faire des rapports sur les questions 
designees par accord des Conferences In- 
ternationales Americaines ; 

5.° Contribuer a obtenir la ratification 
des Resolutions et Conventions adoptees 
par les differentes Conferences; 

6.° Veiller a I'accomplissement de 
toutes les Resolutions qui lui ont ete ou 
qui lui seront imposees par les Confe- 
rences Internationales Americaines; 

7.° Fonctionner com me Commission 
Permanente des Conferences Internatio- 
nales Americaines, proposant des projeta 
qui pourront etre inclus dans les themes 
destines k la prochaine Conference; ces 

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deberan ponerse en conocimiento de los 
diferentes Gobiernos que forman la 
Union, seis meses, por lo menos, antes 
de la fecha en que deba reunirse la 
prdxima Conferencia; 

8.° — Presentar con la misma antici- 
pacion 4 los diferentes Gobiernos, una 
Memoria acerca de las labores de la Uni6n 
desde la ultima Conferencia, y tambien 
informes especiales sobre cada uno de los 
asuntos cuyo estudio se le hubiere en- 
comendado; 

9.° — Tener bajo su custodia los Archivos 
de las Conf erencias Internacionales Ameri- 



the various Governments forming the 
Union, at least six months before the date 
of the meeting: of the next Conference. 



8. To submit within the same period a 
report to the various Governments on the 
work of the Pan American Union dur- 
ing the term covered since the meeting of 
the last Conference, and also special 
reports on any matter which may have 
been referred to it for report. 

9. To keep the records of the Inter- 
national American Conferences. 



Articulo II. 

La Direcci6n de la Union Pan- 
Americana estara a cargo de un Consejo 
Directive, constitufdo por los Represen- 
tantes Diplom^ticos de todos los Gobier- 
nos de dichas Repiiblicas, acreditados 
ante el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos 
de America y por el Secretario de Estado 
de esta misma Naci6n, 4 quien las Re- 
piiblicas Americanas han conferido la 
Presidencia del Consejo Directive. 

Articulo III. 

El Representante Diplomdtico que no 
pudiera concurrir 4 las sesiones del Con- 
sejo, podrd enviar su vote, razondndolo 
por escrito. No se permitird la represen- 
tacion por poder. 

La Repiiblica que no tenga Represen- 
tante acreditado ante el Gobierno de los 
Estados Unidos de America, podrd de- 
signar & un miembro del Consejo Direc- 
tive para que la represente en la Uni6n 
de las Repdblicas Americanas; en este 
case, dicho Representante tendrd un 
veto por cada representacidn. 

ARTfCULO IV. 

El Consejo Directivo celebrara sesiones 
ordinarias, el primer mi6rcoles de cada 
mes, con excepci6n de Junio, Julio y 
Agosto y las extraordinarias d que con- 
voque el Presidente, por su iniciativa 6 
d petici6n de dos miembros del Consejo. 



Bastard la concurrencia de cinco miem- 
bros d cualquiera de las sesiones ordinarias 
6 extraordinarias para que el Consejo 
pueda funcionar regularmente. 

Articulo V. 

En auaencia del Secretario de Estado 
de los Estados Unidos de America, presi- 
dird lag sesiones, por orden de jerarqula y 
antigviedad, con el cardcter de Vice- 
Presidente, uno de los Representantes 
Dipl6maticog en Wdshington, que est^n 
preaentes. 



Article II. 

The control of the Pan American 
Union is vested in a Governing Board 
consisting of the diplomatic representa- 
tives of all the Governments of said Re- 
publics accredited to the Government of 
the United States of America, and the 
Secretary of State of the United States, 
on whom the American Republics have 
conferred the presidency of the Governing 
Board. 

Article III. 

Any diplomatic representative unable 
to attend the meetings of the Board may 
transmit his vote, stating his reason there- 
for in writing. Representation by proxy 
is prohibited. Any Republic having no 
representative accredited before the 
Government of the United States of 
America may designate a member of the 
Governing Board to represent it in the 
Union of American Republics, and in 
this case said representative will have a 
vote for each representation. 



Article IV. 

The Governing Board shall meet in 
regular session the first Wednesday of 
every month, excepting the months ot 
June, July, and August; and in special 
session at the call of the President issued 
on his own initiative, or at the request of 
two members of the Board. 

The attendance of five members at any 
ordinary or special session shall be suffi- 
cient to permit the Board to proceed with 
Business'. 

Article V. 

In the absence of the Secretary of 
State of the United States, one of the 
diplomatic representatives in Washington 
then present, shall preside according to 
rank and seniority, withthe title of Vice- 
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ser dados a conhecer aos differentes Go- 
vernos que formam a Uniao, pelo menos 
seis mezes antes da data em que se deva 
reunir a proxima Conferencia; 

8.° — Apresentar, com a mesma anteci- 
pa^ao, aos differentes Governos, uma 
memoria sobre os trabalhos da Uniao 
desde a ultima Conferencia, e tambem 
informafoes especiaes sobre cada um dos 
assumptos, cujo estudo Ihe tiver sido 
encommendado ; 

9.° — Ter sob a sua salvaguarda os 
Archivos das Conferencias Internacionaes 
Americanas. 

Artigo II. 

A Directoria da "Uniao Pan-Ameri- 
cana" estara a cargo de um Conselho 
Director, constituido pelos representantes 
diplomaticos de todos os Governos das 
mencionadas Republicas, acreditados 
junto ao Governo dos Estados Unidos da 
America, e pelo Secretario de Estado d'esta 
mesma Nagao, ao qual as Republicas 
Americanas conferiram a Presidencia do 
Conselho Director. 

Artigo III. 

representante diplomatico que nao 
puder concorrer as Sessoes do Conselho, 
podera enviar o seu voto, fundamentan- 
do-o por escripto. Nao se permittira a 
representagao por procuragSo. 

A Republica que nao tiver represen- 
tante acreditado junto ao Governo dos 
Estados Unidos da America, podera de- 
signar um membro do Conselho Director 
para que a represente na Uniao das Re- 
publicas Americanas; n'este caso, esse 
representante terd un voto de cada palz 
representado. 

Artigo IV 

O Conselho Director celebrara sessoes 
ordinarias nas primeiras quartas feiras de 
cada mez com excepgao de Junho, Julho 
e Agosto, .e as extraordinarias que o 
Presidente, por sua iniciativa, convocar, 
ou a pedido dos membros do Conselho. 



Bastara a concurrencia de cinco mem- 
bros a qualquer das sessoes ordinarias ou 
extraordinarias, para que o Conselho 
possa funccionar regularmente. 

Artigo V 

Na ausencia do Secretario de Estado 
dos Estados Unidos da America, presidird, 
as sessoes, por ordem de hierarchia e anti- 
guidade, com caracter de Vice-Presidente, 
um dos representantes diplomaticos em 
Washington, que estiverem presentes. 



projets devront etre portes a la connais- 
sance des diff^rents Gouvernements qui 
forment 1' Union, six mois au moins avant 
la date a laquelle doit se reunir la pro- 
chaine Conference; 

8°. Presenter, avec la meme anticipa- 
tion, aux differents Gouvernements, un 
Memoire sur les Travaux de I'Union de- 
puis la derniere Conference, ainsi que 
des rapports speciaux sur chacune des 
questions dont I'^tude lui aurait et6 
recommandee; 

9.° Avoir sous sa garde les Archives des 
Conferences Internationales Americaines. 

Article II. 

La Direction de I'Union Pan-Ameri- 
caine sera confiee a un Conseil Directeur, 
constitue par les Representants Diploma- 
tiques de tous les Gouvernements des 
dites Republiques accredites pres le 
Gouvernement des Etats-Unis d'Ameri- 
que, et par le Secretaire d'Etat de cette 
Nation, a qui les Republiques Ameri- 
caines ont confere la Presidence du Con- 
seil Directeur. 

x\rticle III. 

Le representant diplomatique qui ne 
pourrait assister aux sessions du Conseil, 
pourra envoyer son vote, en donnant 
I'explication par ecrit. U ne pourra 
etre represente par un mandataire. 

La Republique qui n'aurait pas de 
Representant accredite pres du Gouverne- 
ment des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, pourra 
designer un membre du Conseil Directeur 
pour qu'il la represente a I'Union des 
Republiques Americaines; dans ce cas, 
ledit Representant aura droit a une voix 
pour chaque pays represente. 

Article IV. 

Le Conseil Directeur, se reunira en 
sessions ordinaires le premier mercredi de 
chaque mois, sauf pendant les mois de 
juin, de juillet et d'aout, et en sessions 
extraordinaires, sur la convocation du 
President, soit sur I'initiative de celui-ci, 
soit a la demande de deux des membres 
du Conseil. 

Le concours de cinq membres, a une 
session ordinaire ou extraordinaire, sera 
sufl&sant pour que le Conseil puisse fonc- 
tionner regulierement. 

Article V. 

En cas d'absence du Secretaire d'Etat 
des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, la seance 
sera presidee par Fun des representants 
diplomatiques a Washington, alors pre- 
sents; ce representant sera choisi suivant 
I'ordre hierarchique et d'anciennete et 
il aura le caractere de vice-president. 



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Articulo VI. 



Article VI. 



En la Junta Ordinaria de Noviembre, 
el Consejo Directive establecerd por 
Borteo el turno entre todos los Repre- 
eentantes de las Repiiblicas Americanas 
que forman la Union, para crear una Com- 
isi6n de Vigilancia. Los cuatro primeros 
que resulten de epta lista y el Secretario 
de Estado de los Estados Unidos de Ame- 
rica, constituirdn la Primera Comision de 
Vigilancia; y por turno se reno varan los 
cuatro miembros de la Comision, uno por 
ano, de manera que la Comision quedar4 
renovada totalmente a los cuatro anos. 
Entraran d reemplazar 4 los salientes, los 
que sigan en la lista sorteada, debiendose 
proceder asi en caso de renuncia. 

El Secretario de Estado de los Estados 
Unidos de America, sera siempre el Presi- 
dente de la Comision. 



At the regular session to be held in 
November the Governing Board shall fix 
by lot the order of precedence among all 
the representatives of the American Re- 
publics forming the Union in order to 
create a Supervisory Committee. The 
first four on this list and the Secretary 
of the United States of America will 
constitute the first Supervisory Com- 
mittee; and the four members of the 
Committee shall be replaced in turn, 
one every year, so that the Committee 
shall be totally renewed in four years. 
The outgoing members shall always be 
replaced by those following on the list, 
the same method being observed in event 
of resignation. The Secretary of State 
of the United States of America shall 
always be the Chairman of the Committee. 



La Comisi6n de Vigilancia celebrard 
sesion ordinaria el primer lunes de cada 
mes, y tres miembros serdn suficientes 
para constituir "quorum." 



The Supervisory Committee shall hold 
their regular session the first Monday of 
every month, and three members shall 
be sufficient to constitute a quorum. 



Articulo VII. 



Article VII. 



Habrd un Director General nombrado 

Eor el Consejo Directivo, y un Sub- 
•irector que tambi^n desempenara las 
funciones de Secretario del expresado 
Consejo. 

ARTfcULO VIII. 



There shall be a Director General 
appointed by the Governing Board and 
an Assistant Director who shall also act 
as Secretary to the said Board. 

Article VIII. 



El Director General tendra a su cargo 
la administracion de la Union Pan- 
Americana, de acuerdo con los presentes 
Estatutos, con el Reglamento y con las 
disposiciones del Consejo Directivo. 

Estard 4 su cargo la correspondencia con 
los Gobiernos de la Uni6n, por medio de 
SUB Representantes Diplomdticos en 
Wdshington 6 directamente, A falta 
de dichos Representantes, y con las 
Comieiones Pan- Americanas. Debera 
concurrir con cardcter consultivo i, las 
Sesiones del Consejo Directivo, de las 
Comisiones y de las Conferencias Inter- 
nacionales Americanas, salvo resoluci6n 
contraria. 



The Director General shall have charge 
of the Administration of the Pan 
American Union in accordance with 
these fundamental rules, the regulations, 
and the resolutions of the Governing 
Board. 

He shall have charge of the correspond- 
ence with the Governments of the Union 
through theii" diplomatic representatives 
in Washington, or directly in the absence 
of such representatives, and. with the 
Pan American Committees. He shall at- 
tend in an advisory capacity the meetings 
of the Governing Board, of the Com- 
mittees, and of International American 
Conferences, except in the case of resolu- 
tion to the contrary. 



Articulo IX, 



Article IX. 



El personal de la Uni6n Pan-Ameri- 
cana, su numero, nombramientos, de- 
beres y cuanto a el se refiera, se deter- 
minara por el Reglamento. 



The personnel of the Pan American 
Union, the number of employees, their 
appointment, duties and everything 
pertaining thereto, shall be determined 
by the Regulations. 



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Artigo VI 



Article VI. 



Na reuuiao ordinaria de Novembro, o 
Coiiselho Director estabelecera por sorteio 
o turno entre todos os representantes das 
Republicas Americanas que formam a 
Uniao, para nomear uma Commissao de 
Vigilancia. Os primeiros quatro que 
forem sorteados e o Secretario de Estado 
dos Estados Unidos da America, consti- 
tuirao a Primeira Commissao de Vigi- 
lancia, e por turno se renovarao os quatro 
membros da Commissao, um em cada 
anno, de modo que a Commissao fique 
renovada totalmente em quatro annos. 
Substituirao aos que terminem o prazo 
marcado, os que se Ihe seguirem na lista 
eorteada, devendo-se proceder do mesmo 
modo em caso de renuncia. 

Secretario de Estado dos Estados 
Unidos da America sera sempre o Presi- 
dente da Commissao. 

A Commissao de Vigilancia celebrara 
sessoes ordinarias na primeira segunda- 
feira de cada mez, e serao sufficientes tres 
membros para formar "Quorum". 



Artigo VII 

Haverd um Director Geral, nomeado 
pelo Conselho Director, e um Sub-Director 
que tambem desempenhara a^; funcfoes de 
Secretario do Conselho expressado. 



Dans la seance generale ordinaire de 
novembre, le Conseil Directeur etablira, 
par voie de tirage au sort, le tour entre toua 
les repr^sentants des Republiques Am^ri- 
caines qui ferment I'Union, par lequel 
sera creee une Commission de Vigilance. 
Les quatre premiers sortants de cette liste 
et le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unia 
d'Amerique constitueront la premiere 
Commission de Vigilance, et les quatre 
membres de la Commission se renouvel- 
leront par tour, a raison d'un par an, de 
maniere que la Commission se trouvera 
completement renouvelee au bout du 
terme de quatre ans. 

Les noms suivants dans la liste tiree au 
sort remplaceront les sortants. Le meme 
precede sera employe en cas de demission. 

Le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis 
d'Amerique sera toujours le President de 
la Commission. 

La Commission de Surveillance se 
reunira en session ordinaire le premier 
lundi de chaque mois, et trois mem- 
bres seront suffisants pour constituer 
"quorum". 

Article VII. 

II y aura un Directeur General, nomm6 
par le Conseil Directeur et un Sous- 
Directeur qui remplira egalement les 
fonctions de Secretaire dudit Conseil. 



Artigo VIII 

O Director Geral tera a seu cargo a ad- 
ministragao da "Uniao Pan-Americana", 
de accordo com os presentes estatutos, 
com regulamento e com as disposifoes 
do Conselho Director. 

Estara a seu cargo a correspondencia 
com OS Governos da Uniao, por meio dos 
sens representantes diplomaticos em 
Washington, ou directamente, na falta 
d' esses Representantes, e com as Com- 
missoes Pan- Americanas. Devera con- 
correr com caracter consultivo as sessoes 
do Conselho Director, das Commissoes e 
das Conferencias Internacionaes Amer- 
icanas, salvo resolugao contraria. 



Article VIII. 

Le Directeur General aura k sa charge 
I'administration de 1' " Union Pan-Am6ri- 
caine", d'accord avec les presents statuts, 
ainsi qu'avec le Reglement et les disposi- 
tions du Conseil Directeur. 

II aura egalement a sa charge la cor- 
respondance avec les Gouvernements de 
I'Union, par I'intermediaire de leurs. 
representants diplomatiques k Washing- 
ton, ou directement, faute de ces repre- 
sentants, et avec les Commissions Pan- 
Americaines. 

II devra assister, avec caractere con- 
sultatif, aux seances du Conseil Directeur 
des Commissions et des Conferences Inter- 
nationales Americaines, sauf qu'il en soit 
decide autrement. 



Artigo IX 

Opessoal da "Uniao Pan-Americana", 
seu numero, nomeagao, deveres e quanto 
a elle se refira, estara prescripto no regu- 
lamento. 



Article IX. 

Quant au personnel de 1' "Union Pan- 
Americaine" sa composition, sa nomina- 
tion, ses devoirs et tout ce qui le concerne, 
sera determine par le Reglement. 



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Articulo X. 

Habra en la Capital de cada una de las 
Repiiblicas de esta Uni6n, una ("omisidn 
Pan-Americana, dependiente del Minis- 
terio de Relaciones Exteriores, com- 
puesta, si fuere posible, de antiguos Dele- 
gados i alguna Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, con el encargo de: 



Akticle X. 

There shall be in the Capital of each of 
the Republics of this Union a Pan- 
American Commission responsible to the 
Minister of Foreign Affairs consisting, if 
possible, of persons who have been 
Delegates to some International Amer- 
ican Conference, their functions being: 



o) . Gestionar la aprobacion de laa Reso- 
luciones adoptadas por estas Conferencias. 

b). Suministrar a la Union Pan- 
Americana" con precision y 4 la mayor 
brevedad, todos los dates que ella necesite 
para la preparacion de sus trabajos. 

c). Presentar, por iniciatlva propia, los 
proyectos que juzgue convenientes d los 
fines de la Union, y ejercer las demas 
atribuciones que, a los mismos fines, les 
confirieren los respectivos Gobiernos. 

Estas Comisiones se comunicaran con 
la Union Pan-Americana, directamente, 
6 por medio de los Representantes Diplo- 
maticos en Washington. 

Los Gobiernos representados tendran 
derecho de enviar a su costo a la Uni6n 
Pan- Americana, un Ageute especial de 
la respectiva Comision, con el encargo de 
que suministre los datos y noticias que 
se le pidan y de que adqiiiera al mismo 
tiempo los que su Gobierno necesite. 



Articulo XI. 

El Director General de la Union Pan- 
Americana, presentard en la sesion 
ordinaria del mes de Noviembre, un 
presupuesto detallado de los gastos del 
ano subsiguiente. Este presupuesto, 
despues de aprobado por el Consejo 
Directive, se transmitird d los diferentes 
Gobiernos signatarios, con determinaci6n 
de la cuota anual con que cada uno debe 
contribuir, cuota que serd, fijada propor- 
cionalmente d la poblaci6n de cada pais. 

Articulo XII, 

La Union Pan-Americana' hard todas 
las publicaciones que determine el Con- 
sejo Directive y mensualmente, por lo 
menos, publicard un Boletin. 

Toda carta geogrdfica que publique la 
Uni6n Pan-American, llevard constan- 
cia de que no constituye documento apro- 
bado por el Gobierno del pais d que se 
refiere, ni por los Gobiernos de los palses 
cuyos limites aparezcan en la miema 
carta, d no ser que aqu61 y 6stos, hayan 
manifestado expresamente su aprobacidn, 
la cual, en bu caso, se hard constar en la 
misma carta. Andloga constancia se pon- 



a) To obtain the approval of the 
resolutions adopted by these Conferences. 

b) To furnish accurately and without 
delay to the Pan American Union all the 
data needed in the preparation of its 
work. 

c) To submit of their own initiative 
any projects they may deem proper to 
foster the interest of the Union, and to 
exercise such further functions as the 
respective Governments may entrust to 
them. 

These Commissions may correspond 
with the Pan American Union either 
dirrectly or through the diplomatic 
representatives in Washington. 

The Governments represented shall be 
entitled to send, at their own cost, to the 
Pan American ITnion a special agent 
of the respective Commission, charged 
with the supplying of such data and in- 
formation as may be asked from him and 
at the same time to secure such as may 
be needed by his Government. 

Article XI. 

The Director General of the Pan 
American Union shall submit at the 
regular meeting in November a detailed 
budget of the expenses for the following 
year. This Budget, after approval by 
the Governing Board shall be trans- 
mitted to the various Signatory Govern- 
ments with a statement of the annual 
quota which each is to contribute, this 
quota being fixed in proportion to the 
population of the country. 

Article XII. 

The Pan American Union shall issue 
such publications as the Governing Board 
may determine, and shall publish a Bul- 
letin at least once a month. 

All geographical maps published by the 
' ' Pan American Union shall bear a state- 
ment thereon that they do not con- 
stitute documents approved by the Gov- 
ernment of the countiy to which they 
apply, nor by the Governments of the 
countries whose boundaries appear there- 
on, unless the former and the latter Gov- 
ernments shall have expressly given their 
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Artigo X 

Havera na capital de cada uma das 
Republicas d'esta Uniao, uma Commissao 
Pan-Americana, dependente do Ministerio 
das Relafoes Exteriores, composta, se for 
possivel, de antigos Delegados a alguma 
das Conferencias Internacionaes Ameri- 
canas, com a incumbencia de: 



a) Promover a approvafao das Reso- 
lu^oes adoptadas por estas Conferencias. 

b) Ministrar a "Uniao Pan-Ameri- 
cana," com exactidao e a maior brevi- 
dade, todos os dados que ella necessitar 
para a prepara^ao dos seus trabalhos. 

c) Apresentar, por iniciativa propria, 
OS projectos que julgar convenientes aos 
prospositos da Uniao, e exercer as demais 
attribuifoes que, com os mesmos fins, Ihes 
conferirem os respectivos Governos. 

Estas Commissoes se communicarao 
com a "Uniao Pan-Americana," directa- 
mente, ou por meio dos representantes 
diplomaticos em Washington. 

Os Governos representados terao o 
direito de enviar a propria custa 4 ' ' Uniao 
Pan-Americana" um agente especial 
da respectiva Commissao, com a incum- 
bencia de ministrar os dados e noticias 
que Ihe pedirem, e adquirir, ao mesmo 
tempo, aquelles de que o seu Governo 
necessitar. 

Artigo XI 

O Director Geral da "Uniao Pan- 
Americana", apresentara na sessao ordi- 
naria do mez de Novembro um or^amento 
minucioso das despezas do anno seguinte. 
Este orgamento depois de approvado 
pelo Conselho Director, ser4 remettido 
aos differentes Governos signatarios, com 
a determinagao da quota annual com que 
cada um deve contribuir, quota esta, que 
sera marcada proporcionalmente a popu- 
lagao de cada paiz. 



Artigo XII 

A "Uniao Pan Americana" fara todas 
as publicagSes que o Conselho Director 
determinar, e pelo menos, mensalmente, 
publicara um Boletim. 

Todo mappa geographico que publicar 
a "Uniao Pan- Americana " levari a nota 
de que nao constitue documento appro- 
vado pelo Governo do paiz a que se refere, 
nem pelos Governos dos paizes cujos limi- 
tes figurem no mesmo mappa, a nao ser 
que aquelle e estes tenham manifestado 
expressamente a sua appro va^ao, a qual, 
nesse caso, se fara constar no mesmo 
mappa. Analoga constancia se far^ nas 



Article X. 

Dans la capitale de chacune des Re- 
publiques de cette Union, il sera constitu6 
une Commission Pan - Americaine de- 
pendant du Ministfere des Affaires 
Etrangferes, et compos6e, autant que pos- 
sible, d'anciens Delegues a quelqu'une 
des Conferences Internationales Am^ri- 
caines. 

Cette Commission aura pour ob jet de : 

a) Solliciter I'approbation des Resolu- 
tions adoptees par ces Conferences; 

b) Fournir k V "Union Pan-Am^ri- 
caine," d'une maniere precise et dans le 
plus bref delai possible tons les renseigne- 
ments dont elle pent avoir besoin pour 
la preparation de ses travaux. 

c) Presenter, de sa propre initiative, 
les projets qu'elle jugera propres aux fins 
de I'Union, et exercer toutes les attribu- 
tions que lui confereraient dans ce but les 
Governements respectifs. 

Ces Commissions se communiqueront 
directement avec 1' "Union Pan-Am&i- 
caine ", ou par I'intermediaire des Repre- 
sentants Diplomatiques a Washington. 

Les Gouvernements representes auront 
le droit d'envoyer, h leurs frais, a 1' 
"Union Pan - Americaine " un agent 
special de la Commission respective, avec 
I'indication de fournir les renseignements 
qui lui seraient demandes, et qu'il se 
procure, en mgme temps, ceux dont son 
Gouvernement a besoin. 

Article XI. 

Le Directeur General de 1' "Union 
Pan-Americaine " presentera dans la 
seance generale ordinaire de novembre, 
un budjet detaille des depenses de I'annee 
suivante. Ce budget, une fois approuve 
par le Conseil Directeur, sera communi- 
que aux Gouvernements signataires, 
ainsi que la determination de la quote- 
part annuelle par laquelle chacun d'eux 
doit contribuer, quote-part qui sera fixee 
proportionnellement a la population de 
chaque pays. 

Article XII. 

L' "Union Pan-Am6ricaine," fera 
toutes les publications d^cidees par le 
Conseil Directeur et publiera un Bulletin, 
au moins une fois par mois. 

Toute carte g(5ographique que publie- 
rait 1'" Union Pan-Americaine" fera con- 
stater visiblement qu'elle n'est paB un 
document approuv^ par le Gouverne- 
ment du pays qui en fait I'objet, ni par les 
Gouvernements des pays limitrophes ap- 
paraissant sur la meme carte, sauf que 
celui-lk ou ceux-ci aient manifest^ ex- 
press^ment leur approbation, laquelle, 
dans ce cas, sera annotee sur la carte. 



164 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



drd en las demas publicaciones de la 
Union, que no tengan card,cter oficial. 



Todas estae publicaciones, con excep- 
ci6n de las que determine el Consejo 
Directive, seran distribuidas gratuita- 
mente. 

Articulo XIII. 

A fin de que la Union Pan-Ameri- 
cana obtenga la mayor exactitud en sus 
publicaciones, cada uno de los Estados 
signatarios, remitira directamente a esta 
Instituci6n, do& ejemplares de los docu- 
mentos 6 publicaciones oficiales que pue- 
dan relacionarse con los asuntos que se 
refieran 4 los fines de la Union ; y , con el 
mismo objeto, remitiran un ejemplar d 
cada una de las Comiiiones Pan-Ameri- 
canas. 

Articulo XIV. 

Toda la correspondencia y publicacio- 
nes de la Union Pan-Americana seran 
franqueadas gratuitamente por los Correos 
de las Repiiblicas Americanas. 

Articulo XV. 

La Union Pan-Americana se regira 
por el Reglamento que dicte el Con^ejo 
Directivo, con sujecion a estos Eotatutos. 



Articulo XVI. 

Las Republicas Americanas se com- 
prometen a continuar sosteniendo esta 
Union durante el termino de diez anos, 
contados desde esta fecba y d. pagar anual- 
mente d la Tesoreria de la Union Pan- 
Americana, la cuota que a cada una cor- 
responda. 

Cualquiera de ellas podra dejar de per- 
tenecer 4 la Union de las Repiiblicas 
Americana^, dando aviso al Consejo Direc- 
tivo, con dos anos de anticipacion. 

La Union Pan-Americana continuar4 
por periodos consecutivos de diez anos, a 
menos que, doce meses antes de expirar 
dicho termino, una mayoria de los miem- 
bros de la "Union" hay a notificado ofi- 
cialmente, por medio del Secretario de 
Estado de los Estados Unidos de America, 
el deseo de separarse de ella al concluir 
el citado periodo. 

Articulo XVII. 

Quedanderogadas todas las disposi clones 
contrarias d, la presente Resoluci6n. 

Hecho y firmado en la Ciudad de 
Buenos Aires, a los once dias de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espanol, ingles, 
portugu^s y f ranees, y depositado en el 



stated on the map. A similar statement 
shall be made on the other publications 
of the Union, save those which are of an 
ofiicial nature. 

All these publications, with the excep- 
tions determined by the Governing Board, 
shall be distributed gratuitously. 

Article XIII. 

In order to assure the greatest possible 
accuracy in the publications of the Pan 
American Union, each of the Signatory 
States shall transmit directly to the Union 
two copies of all official documents or 
publications relating to matters connected 
with the purposes of the Union; and with 
the same object they shall also send one 
copy to each of the Pan American Com- 
missions. 

Article XIV. 

All coiTespondence and publications of 
the Pan American Union shall be car- 
ried free of charge by the mails of the 
American Republics. 

Article XV. 

The Pan American L^nion shall be 
governed by the regulations prepared by 
the Governing Board in accordance with 
the Statutes. 

Article XVI. 

The American Republics bind them- 
selves to continue to support the Pan 
American Union for a term of ten years 
from this date, and to pay annually into 
the Treasury of the Pan American 
Union their respective quotas. Any of 
the Republics may cease to belong to 
the Union of American Republics upon 
notice to the Governing Board, two years 
in advance. The Pan American Union 
shall continue for successive terms of ten 
years unless twelve months before the 
expiration of such term a majority of the 
members of the Union shall express the 
wish, through the Secretary of State of 
the United States of America, to with- 
draw therefrom on the expiration of the 
term. 



Article XVII. 

All rules contrary to the present Reso- 
lution are hereby repealed. 

Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires on the eleventh day of the month of 
August in the year one thousand nine 
hundred and ten in the Spanish, English, 



FOURTH HTTERNATIONAL CONFERElSrCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 165 



demais publicagoes da IJniao que nao 
tiverem caracter official. 



Todas estas publicagoes, com excep^ao 
das que o Conselho Director determinar, 
Berao distribuidas gratuitamente. 

Artigo XIII 

Pai'a que a "Uniao Pan- Americana " 
obtenha a maior exactidao nas suas pub- 
lica^oes, cada um dos Estados signatarios 
remettera directamente a esta instituigao 
dois exemplares dos documentos ou pub- 
licagoes officiaes que puderem relacionar- 
ee com os assumptos que a isso se refiram e, 
com mesmo fim, remetterao um exemp- 
lar a cada uma das Commissoes Pan- 
Americanaa. 

Artigo XIV 

Toda a correspondencia e publicagoes 
da "Uniao Pan-Americana" serao fran- 
queadas gratuitamente pelos correios das 
Republicas Americanas. 

Artigo XV 

A "Uniao Pan-Americana" se regera 
pelo regulamento que formular o Con- 
selho Director, de accordo com estes 
estatutos. 

Artigo XVI 

As Republicas Americanas se compro- 
mettem a continuar sustentando esta 
Uniao, durante o periodo de dez annos, 
contados desde esta data, e a pagar an- 
nualmente d thesouraria da Uniao Pan- 
Americana, a quota que a cada uma cor- 
responder. 

Qualquer d'ellas poderd deixar de per- 
tencer 4 Uniao das Republicas Ameri- 
canas, aAdsando o Conselho Director com 
dois annos de antecipafao. 

A "Uniao Pan -Americana" continuara 
a existir por periodos consecutivos de dez 
annos, a nao ser que, doze mezes antes de 
expirar o referido prazo, uma maioria dos 
membros da "Uniao" tenha notificado 
officialmente, por meio do Secretario de 
Estado dos Estados Unidos da America, o 
desejo de separar-se d'ella ao terminar o 
referido prazo. 

Artigo XVII. 

Ficam revogadas todas as disposigoes 
contrarias a presente Resolufao. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em heapanhol, 
inglez, portuguez, e francez, e entregue 



Une declaration analogue sera faite sur lea 
autres publications de I'Union qui n'au- 
raient pas de caractfere oflaciel. 

Toutes ces publications, exception 
faite de celles que determinerait le Conseil 
Directeur, seront distributes gratuite- 
ment. 

Article XIII. 

Afin que 1'" Union Pan-Am6ricaine" 
obtienne la plus grande exactitude dans 
ses publications, chacun des Etats signa- 
taires remettra directement a cette Insti- 
tution deux exemplaires des documents 
ou publications officielles qui puissent 
avoir des rapports avec les affaires qui ont 
trait aux fins de I'Union: et, dans ce m§me 
but, ils en remettront un exemplaire k 
chacune des Commissions Pan-Am^ri- 
caines. 

Article XIV. 

Toute la correspondance et les publica- 
tions de 1'" Union Pan-Am6ricaine" 
seront affranchies gratuitement par la 
poste des Republiques Americaines, 

Article XV. 

L'" Union Pan-Americaine " sera regie 
par le Reglement dicte par le Conseil Di- 
recteur. dans les li mites de ses Statuts. 



Article XVI. 

Les Republiques Americaines s'en- 
gagent a continuer de soutenir cette 
Union pendant I'espace de dix ans, a 
partir de la pr&ente date, et a payer 
annuellement a la Caisse de 1 'Union Pan- 
ALm^ricaine, la part qui leur correspond. 

L'une quelconque d'entre elles pourra 
cesser d'appartenir a I'Union des Repub- 
liques Americaines, pourvu qu'elle en 
donne avis deux ans d'avance au Conseil 
Directeur. 

L'" Union Pan-Americaine ' ' continuera 
par periodes consecutives de dix ans, 
I moins que, douze mois avant 1 'expira- 
tion de ce terme, la majeure partie des 
membres de 1'" Union" n'ait notifie offi- 
ciellement, par I'intermediaire du Secre- 
taire d'Etat des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, 
le desir de s'en separer a la fin de ladite 
periode. 

Article XVII. 

Toutes les dispositions contraires k la 
presente Resolution sent abrogees. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le onzi- 
eme jour du mois d' Ao<it milneuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, en anglais, en portugais et en 
frangais, et depose au Ministfere des Af- 



166 FOURTH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Republica Argentina d fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la "via diplomdtica, i, cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados TJnidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H.Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina.— knionio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Por los Estados Untdos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio de Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Repiiblica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Repiiblica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga, 
Por los Estados Untdos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peru. — Eugenie Lar- 

rabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

der6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Republica de el Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Portuguese and French languages, and 
filed in the ^Imistry of Foreign Affairs of 
the Argentine Republic, in order that cer- 
tified copies may be taken to be forwarded 
through the diplomatic channels to each 
one of the signatory States. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nix- 
on, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — -Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 
deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTER]!irATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



167 



ao Ministerio das Relafoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para qne se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
por via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero. Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Ednardo L. Bidau. Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela. Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry. Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba.- — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ardstegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — ^Am^rico 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin Fou- 

chard . 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victor- 

iano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A, 

Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama.— Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peril. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

r6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez SuArez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — ^Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



faires Etrangeres de la R^publique Argen- 
tine, afin qu'il en soit,fait des copies au- 
thentiquees qui seront envoy^es, par la 
vole diplomatique, a chacun des lEtats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. —Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d^ Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Beli- 
sdrio Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y tJnanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador.- — Fed- 
erico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de VUruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Man uel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX R. 



CITABTA CONFEEENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION. 

Union Pan- Americana. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus Gobier- 
nos respectivos, ban aprobado la oiguiente 
Resolucion: 

Sometida a la consideracion de la Con- 
ferencia la idea de pactar una organizacion 
definitiva de la "Uni6n Pan-Americana," 
se resuelve: 

Recomendar a los Gobiernos de las 
Republicas Americanas, que consideren 
la conveniencia de asegurar el desarrollo 
continuo y la existencia permanente 
de la Union Pan-Americana por medio 
de una Convencion, con arreglo a las 
eiguientes bases propuestas al efecto. 



RESOLUTION. 

Pan American Union. 

The undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented in the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly au- 
thorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
Resolution: 

There having been submitted to the 
consideration of the Conference the pro- 
posal to agree upon a permanent organi- 
zation of the "Pan American Union," 
be it resolved: 

To recommend to the Governments of 
the American Republics that they 
consider the proposal of assuring the 
continued development and permanent 
existence of the Pan American Union 
by means of a Convention based on the 
following stipulations: 



PROYECTO DE CONVENCION 

Los Gobiernos de los Estados Unidos de 
America, de la Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, 
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Repii- 
blica Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, 
Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, 
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uru- 
guay y Venezuela, deseosos de establecer 
sobre base permanente la "Union Pan- 
Americana", creada por la Primera Con- 
ferencia Internacional de Estados Ameri- 
canos y confirmada por la Segunda, la 
Tercera y la Cuarta Conferencias, han 
resuelto celebrar una Convencion, y al 
efecto sus Plenipotenciarios respectivos, 

los senores 

despues de haberse comunicado sus po- 
deres, que oe hallaron en buena y debida 
forma, han convenido en los articulos 
siguientefl: 



PROJECT or A CONVENTION 

The Governments of the United States 
of America, Argentine Republic, Bolivia, 
Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, 
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guate- 
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicara- 
gua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, 
Uruguay, and Venezuela, desiring to put 
on a more permanent basis the Inter- 
national Bureau of the American Re- 
publics, created by the First Interna- 
tional Conference of American States and 
confirmed by the Second, Third and 
Fourth Conferences, have resolved to 
conclude a Convention to that end; and 
for that purpose their Plenipotentiaries : 

After having communicated to each 
other their respective full powers found 
to be in good and due form, have agreed 
upon the following articles : 



Articulo I 

La Union de las Republicas Ameri- 
canas, constituida por los Estados signa- 
tarios, mantiene, con el nombre de 
"Union Pan- Americana" , la institucion 
que le sirve de organo y tiene su asiento 
en el edificio de las Republicas Ameri- 
canas en la ciudad de Washington. 

168 



Article I. 

The Union of the American Republics, 
constituted by the signatory States, 
maintains under the name of the "Pan- 
American Union" the Institution which 
acts as its organ and has its seat in the 
building of the American Republics in the 
City of Washington. 



APPENDIX R. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUfAO. 

TJniao Pan- Americana. 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados da3 
Republicas representadas na Quarta 
Conferencia Interna clonal Americana, 
devldamente autorlzados pelos sens re- 
spectlvos Governos, approvaram a se- 
gulnte resolufao: 

Submettlda a consldera^ao da Confer- 
encia a idea de fixar uma organiza^ao 
definltlva da "Uniao Pan-Americana," 
flea resolvido: 

Recommendar aos Governos das Re- 
publicas Americanas que considerem a 
conveniencia de assegurar o desenvolvi- 
mento continue e a existencia perma- 
nente da "Uniao Pan-Americana" por 
meio de uma Convengao, de accordo com 
as seguintes bases para este fim propostas: 

PROJECTO DE CONVENCAO 

Os Governos dos Estados Unidos da 
America, Argentina, Boli\'ia, Brasil, 
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Re- 
publica Dominicana, Equador, Guate- 
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nica- 
ragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, 
Uruguay e Venezuela, desejosos de 
estabelecer, sobre uma base per- 
manente, a "Uniao Pan-Americana" 
creada pela Primeira Conferencia Inter- 
nacional dos Estados Americanos, e con- 
firmada pelas Segunda, Terceira e Quarta 
Conferencias, resolveram celebrar uma 
Convengao, e, para este fim, os sens 
respectivos Plenipotenciarios, Srs. 



depois de terem apresentado as suas 
credenciaes, que se acharani em devida, 
forma, concordaram estabelecer os se- 
guintes artigos: 

Artigo I. 

A "Uniao das Republicas Ameri- 
canas," constituida pelos Estados signa- 
tarios, mantem com o nome de "Uniao 
Pan-Americana" a instituigao que Ihe 
serve de orgao, e tem sua sede no edificio 
das Republicas Americanas na cidade de 
Washington. 



RESOLUTION. 

Union Pan-Amiricaine. 

Les soussign^s, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatri^me Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dti- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante: 

Ayant ete soumise a la Conference 
I'idee de convenir d'une organisation 
definitive de V "Union Pan-Am^ricaine," 
il est resolu: 

De recommander aux Gouvernemente 
des Republiques Americaines de cons 
siderer la convenance qu'il y a a assure- 
le developpement continu et I'existencr 
permanente de 1' "Union Pan -Ameri- 
caine" sur les bases suivantes proposees 
a cet eiJet: 

PROJET DE CONVENTION 

Les Gouvernements des Etats-Unis 
d'Am^rique, de 1' Argentine, de la Bolivie 
du Bresil, du Chili, de la Colombie, dc 
Costa-Rica, de Cuba, de la Republique 
Dominicaine, de I'Equateur, du Guate- 
mala, d' Haiti, du Honduras, du Mexique, 
de Nicaragua, de Panama, du Paraguay, 
du Perou, du Salvador, de 1' Uruguay 
et de Venezuela, desireux d'etablir, siir 
une base permanente, 1' "Union Pan- 
Americaine" creee par la Premiere 
Conference Internationale des Etats 
Americains et confirmee par les Seconde, 
Troisieme et Quatrieme Conferences, ont 
resolu de celebrer une Convention et a 
cet effet leurs Plenipotentiaires respectifs, 

M.M 

apres s'etre communique leiirs pouvoirs, 
qui se trouvaient en due forme, ont 
convenu les articles suivants: 



Article I. 



L' 



'Union des Republiques Ameri- 
caines" constituee par les Etats signa- 
taires, maintient avec le nom d' "Union 
Pan-Am^ricaine " I'institution qui lui 
sert d'organe et qui a son siege dans le 
palais des Republiques Americaines dans 
la ville de Washington. 

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Articulo II 

Son atribuciones de la Uiii6n Pan- 
Americana: 

1°: — Compilar y distribuir datos 6 in- 
formes relatives al comercio, industria, 
agricultura, instruccion y progreso de los 
paises americanos. 

2°: — Compilar y clasificar todo lo refe- 
rente a los Tratados y Convenciones entre 
las Repiiblicas Americanas y entre estas 
y los demas Estados y a la legislacion 
vigente en ellas. 

3°: — Contribuir al desarrollo de las rela- 
ciones de comercio e intelectuales de las 
Repiiblicas Americanas y 4 su mas intimo 
conocimiento mutuo. 

4°: — Funcionar como Comision perma- 
nente de las Conferencias Internacionales 
Americanas; conservar sus archivos; con- 
tribuir a obtener la ratificacion de las 
Resoluciones y Convenciones adoptadas; 
estudiar 6 iniciar proyectos que puedan 
Ber incluidos en el programa de la pr6- 
xima Conferencia; comunicarlo3 a los di- 
ferentes Gobiernos de la Union, por lo 
menos con eeis meses de anticipacion, y 
dar forma al Programa y Reglamento de 
cada proxima Conferencia. 

5°: — Presentar a los varios Gobiernos, 
tres meses antes de la reunion de cada 
Conferencia, una memoria de los trabajos 
realizados por la Institucion, desde la 
clausura de la Conferencia anterior, e 
informes especiales acerca de cada uno 
de los asuntos que le hayan sido enco- 
mendados. 

6°: — Desempeiiar cualesquiera otras 
funciones que le cometa la Conferencia 
6 el Consejo Directivo. 

Articulo III 

Habra en la Capital de cada una de las 
Repiiblicas de esta Union, una Comision 
Pan-Americana, dependiente del Minis- 
terio de Relaciones Exteriores, compu- 
esta, si fuere posible, de antiguos Dele- 
gados a alguna Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, con el encargo de: 

a) Gestionar la aprobacion de las Reso- 
luciones adoptadas por estas Conferencias, 

6) Suministrar a la Uni<5n Pan- 
Americana con precision y a la mayor 
brevedad, todos los datos que ella necesite 
para la preparacion de sus trabajos. 

c) Presentar, por iniciativa propia, los 
proyectos que juzgue convenientes a los 
fines de la "Union", y ejercer las 
demas atribuciones que & los mismos 
fines les confirieren los Gobiernos. 



Article II. 

The functions of the Pan-American 
Union are: 

1. To compile and distribute informa- 
tion and reports concerning the commer- 
cial, industrial, agricultural, and educa- 
tional development, as well as the general 
progress of the American countries. 

2. To compile and classifj" information 
referring to the treaties and Conventions 
concluded among the American Repub- 
lics and between these and other States, 
as well as to the legislation of the former. 

3. To assist in the development of com- 
mercial and intellectual relations be- 
tween the American Republics and of 
their more intimate mutual acquaintance. 

4. To act as a permanent commission of 
the International American Conferences; 
to keep their records and archives; to 
assist in obtaining the ratification of the 
Resolutions and Conventions adopted; to 
prepare or initiate projects which may be 
included in the programme of the subse- 
quent Conference, to communicate such 
projects to the different Governments of 
the Union at least six months in advance; 
and to prepare the program and r^u- 
lations of each Conference. 

5. To submit to the various Govern- 
ments, three months before the meeting 
of each Conference, a report upon the 
work of the Institution since the closing of 
the last Conference, and also special re- 
ports upon any matter which may have 
been referred to it. 

6. To perform such other functions aa 
may be conferred by the Conference or by 
the Governing Board. 

Article III. 

There shall be established, in the Capi- 
tal of each of the Republics of the Union, 
a Pan American Commission, attached 
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 
composed as,far as possible of former dele- 
gates to an International American Con- 
ference. The Commissions shall have the 
following duties; 

(a) To assist in securing the approval of 
the resolutions adopted by the Confer- 
ence. 

(b) To furnish the Pan - American 
Union with promptness and in a com- 
plete manner, all the information it may 
need in the preparation of its work. 

(c) To present upon their own initia- 
tive, projects which they may consider 
adapted to the purposes of the Union and 
to fulfil such other functions which in 
view of these purposes may be conferred 
upon them by the Govermnents. 



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Artigo II. 

As attribuifoes da "Uniao Pan- Amer- 
icana" sao: 

1): — Compilar e distribuir dados ou 
informafoes relatives ao commercio, in- 
dustria, agricultura, instrucfao e pro- 
gresso dos paizes americanos. 

2): — Compilar e classificar tudo o que 
86 referir aos tratados e convengoes entre 
aq Republicas Americanas, e entre estas 
e OS demais Estados e a legislayao vigente 
n'ellas. 

3): — Contribuir para o desenvolvimento 
das relagoes commerciaes e intellectuaes 
das Republicas Americanas e o seu mais 
intimo conhecimento mutuo. 

4): — Funccionar como commissao per- 
manente das Conferencias Internacionaes 
Americanas: conservar os sens archivos; 
contribuir para obter a ratifica^ao das 
resolufoes e convenfoes adoptadas; estu- 
dar ou iniciar projectos que se possam 
incluir no programma da proxima Con- 
ferencia; communical-os aos differentes 
Governos da Uniao, pelo menos com seis 
mezes de antecipa^ao, e organizar o 
programma e regulamento de cada 
proxima Conferencia. 

5): — Apresentar aos varios Governos, 
tres mezes antes da reuniao de cada Con- 
ferencia, uma memoria dos trabalhos 
realizados pela Instituigao desde o encer- 
ramento do Conferencia anterior, e 
informagoes especiaes sobre cada um dos 
assumptos que Ihe tenham sido encom- 
mendados. 

6): — Desempenhar qualquer outra func- 
gao que Ihe confie a Conferencia ou o 
Conselho Director. 

Artigo III. 

Havera na capital de cada uma das Re- 
publicas que fazem parte d'esta Uniao, 
uma Commissao Pan-Americana, depen- 
dente do Ministerio das Relafoes Exteri- 
ores, composta, se for possivel, de antigos 
Delegados a alguma Conferencia Interna- 
cional Americana, com a incumbencia de: 

a): — Promover a approvagao das reso- 
lugoes adoptadas por estas Conferencias. 

b): — Ministrar d "Uniao Pan-America- 
na" com exactidao e a maior brevidade, 
todos OS dados de que ella necessitar para 
a preparagao dos seus trabalhos. 

c): — Apresentar, por iniciativa propria, 
OS projectos que julgar convenientes aos 
fins da "Uniao" e exercer as demais attri- 
buigoes que com os mesmos fins Ihe con- 
ferirem os Governos. 



Article II. 

Sont attributions de 1' "Union Pan- 
Am^ricaine " : 

1): — Compiler et distribuer les ren- 
seignements ou rapports relatifs au com- 
merce, h I'industrie, k I'agriculture, ^ 
I'instruction et au progr^s dee pays 
am^ricains. 

2) : — Compiler et classifier tout ce qui a 
trait aux Trait^s et Conventions entre lea 
Republiques Americaines et entre celles- 
ci et les autres Etats, et k la legislation 
en vigueur chez elles. 

3): — Contribuer au developpement dea 
relations commerciales et intellectuelles 
des Republiques d'Amerique et a leur 
plus intime connaissance mutuelle. 

4) : — Fonctionner comme Commission 
permanente des Conferences Internation- 
ales Americaines; conserver ses archives, 
contribuer a obtenir la ratification dea 
Resolutions et Conventions adoptees, etu- 
dier ou commencer a mettre a execution 
des pro jets qui peuvent 6tre inclus dans le 
Programme de la prochaine Conference, 
les communiquer aux differents Gouver- 
nements de 1' Union, avec au moins six 
mois d'anticipation, et donner une forme 
au Programme et au Reglement de cha- 
que prochaine Conference. 

5) : — Presenter aux differents Gouverne- 
ments, trois mois avant la reunion de cha- 
que Conference, un Memoire des travaux 
realises par I'lnstitution depuis la cloture 
de la Conference precedente, et des rap- 
ports speciaux sur chacune des questions 
qui lui ont ete recommandees. 

6) : — Remplir toutes autres fonctions qui 
lui seront attribuees par la Conference ou 
le Conseil Directeur. 

Article III. 

II y aura dans la capitale de chacune 
des Republiques de cette Union, une 
Commission Pan-Americaine, dependant 
du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, com- 
posee, si cela est possible, d'anciens D^le- 
gues a des Conferences Internationales 
Americaines, ayant comme fonctions de: 

a) Solliciter 1' approbation des Resolu- 
tions adoptees par ces Conferences; 

b) Fournir a 1' "Union Pan-Ameri- 
caine ' ' avec precision et dans le plus court 
delai possible, tous les renseignements 
dont elle a besoin pour la preparation de 
ses travaux; 

c) Presenter, de sa propre initiative, 
les projets qu'elle juge convenables pour 
les fins de F Union et exercer les autrea 
attributions que pour les memes fins lui 
conf^reraient les Gouvernements. 



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Articulo IV 

La Direccion de la Union Pan- 
Americana estara a cargo del Consejo 
Directive, constituido por los Repre- 
eentantes Diplomaticos acreditados por 
los otros Gobiernos Americanos ante el 
Gobierno de Washington, y del Secretario 
de Estado de los Estados Unidos, a 
quien las Republicas Americanas ban 
conferido la presidencia del Consejo 
Directive. 

En ausencia del Secretario de Estado 
de los Estados Unidos, presidir4 las 
eesiones del Consejo Directive, uno de 
los representantes diplomaticos en Wash- 
ington, que esten presentes, por orden de 
jerarquia y antigiiedad, ^on el caracter 
de Vice-Presidente del Consejo. 

El Gobierno Americano que no tenga 
Representante Diplomatico en Washing- 
ton, podra conferir su representacion en 
el Consejo Directive, a cualquier otro 
miembro del Consejo; en este case, dicho 
representante tendra un vote por cada 
representacion. 

El Consejo Directive celebrara sesiones 
ordinarias en cada mes, con excepcion 
de Junie, Julio y Agoste, y las extraordi- 
narias a que convoque el Presidente, por 
su iniciativa 6 a peticion de des miembros 
•del Consejo. Bastara la concurrencia de 
cinco miembros a cualquiera de las sesiones 
ordinarias 6 extraordinarias, para que el 
Consejo pueda funcionar regularmente. 



Article IV. 

The Governments of the Pan Ameri- 
can Union shall be vested in the Govern- 
ing Board constituted by the diplomatic 
representatives of the American Govern- 
ments, accredited to the Government of 
the United States of America, and of the 
Secretary of State of the United States of 
America, upon whom the Republics of 
America have confen'ed the presidency of 
the Governing Beard. 

In absence of the Secretary of State, 
one of the diplomatic representatives in 
Washington who may be present shall pre- 
side ever the sessions of the Governing 
Beard, in the order of diplomatic rank and 
seniority, and with the character of Vice- 
President. 

An American Government which may 
not have a diplomatic representative at 
Washington may confer its representation 
in the Governing Board upon any other 
member of the said Board; in this case 
such representative shall have one vote 
for each country represented. 

The Governing Board shall hold regular 
sessions every month, with the exception 
of June, July and August and extraordi- 
nary sessions when convoked by the 
President, either upon his own initiative, 
or upon petition of two members of the 
Beard. The attendance of five members 
at ordinary or special sessions shall be 
sufficient to constitute a quorum. 



ArtIculo V 

El Director General de la Union Pan- 
Americana presentara en la sesion ordi- 
naria de Noviembre, un presupueste 
pormenorizado de los gastes del ano 
siguiente. Este presupueste, despues de 
aprebade por el Consejo Directive, sera 
comunicado a los Gobiernos signatarios, 
■expresdndose la cuota anual, fijada pre- 
porcionalmente a la poblacion de cada 
pals, que debera consignar cada Gobierno, 
no mas tarde del dia primero de Julie, en 
la Tesoreria de la Union Pan Ameri- 
cana. 

El Consejo Directive elegira una 
Cemision de su seno, encargada de 
examinar, en las fechas que el Consejo 
senale, la cuenta de los gastes de la 
"Union", cenferme lo determine el Reg- 
lamento. 

Articulo VI 

El Consejo Directive nombrara: 

Un Director General que tendra d, su 
cargo la Administraci6n de la Union Pan- 
Americana y facultad de promever su 



Article V. 

The Dii-ector General of the Pan 
American Union shall present at the 
regular session in November, a detailed 
Budget of the expenses of the following 
year. This Budget, after being approved 
by the Governing Board, shall be com- 
municated to the Signatory Governments 
with an indication of the quota, fixed in 
proportion to population, which each 
Government shall pay into the Treasury 
of the Pan American Union not later 
than the first of July in each year. 

The Governing Board shall elect from 
among its members a Committee charged 
with examining, on the dates determined 
by the Board, the accounts of the expendi- 
tures of the Union, in conformity with the 
financial arrangements established by the 
Regulations. 

Article VI. 

The Governing Board shall appoint the 
following officers: 

A Director General, who shall have 
charge of the administi-ation of the Pan 
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Artigo IV. 

A direcvao da "Uniao Pan- America- 
na "estara a cargo do Oonselho Director, 
constituido pelos represent antes diplo- 
maticos acreditados pelos outros Governos 
Americanos, perante o Governo de Wash- 
ington, e do Secretario de Estado dos Es- 
tados Unidos de America, a quem as Re- 
publicas Americanas conferiram a presi- 
dencia do Conselho Director. 

Na ausencia do Secretaiio de Estado dos 
Estados Unidos, presidira as sessoes do 
Conselho Director um dos representantes 
diploma ticos em Washington, que esti- 
verem presentes, por ordem de hierarchia 
e antiguidade, com o caracter de Vice- 
Presidente do Conselho. 

O Governo Americano que nao tenha 
representante diplomatico em Washing- 
ton, podera conferir a sua representa9ao 
no Conselho Director a qualquer outro 
membro do mencionado Conselho; n'este 
caso, esse representante terd um voto de 
cada representa^ao. 

O Conselho Director celebrara sessoes 
ordinarias em cada mez, com excepgao de 
Junho, Julho e Agosto, e as extraordin- 
arias que o Presidente convocar por sua 
iniciativa, ou a pedido dos membros do 
Conselho. 

Bastard a concurrencia de cinco mem- 
bros a qualquer das sessoes ordinarias ou 
extraordinarias, para que o Conselho possa 
funccionar regularmente. 

Artigo V. 

O Director Geral da "Uniao Pan-Ameri- 
cana" apresentara na sessao ordinaria 
de Novembro um or^amento minucioso 
das despezas do aimo seguinte. Este 
or^amento, depois de approvado, sera 
communicado aos Governos signatarios, 
indicando-se a quota annual, proporcional 
apopulagao de cada paiz, a qual devera ser 
depositada por parte de cada Governo na 
Thesom'aria da "Uniao Pan-Americana, 
nunca depois do dia primeiro de Julho. 



Conselho Director elegera d'entre 
sens membros uma commissao incumbida 
de examinar, na data que o Conselho 
marcar, as quotas das despezas da 
"Uniao," conforme estabelega o regu- 
lamento. 

Artigo VI. 

Conselho Director nomeara: 

Um Director Geral que tera a seu cargo 
a administra^ao da "Uniao Pan-Ameri- 
cana," com faculdade para promover o 



Article IV. 

La Direction de I'Union Pan-Ameri- 
caine sera a la charge d'un Conseil Direc- 
teur, constitue par les representants di- 
ploraatiques accredites par les autres Gou- 
vernements americains, pres le Gouverne- 
ment de Washington, auxquels se joindra 
le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis, a qui 
les Republiques Americaines ont confie la 
presidence du Conseil Directeur. 

, En I'absence du Secretaire d'Etat des 
Etats-Unis, I'un des repr&entants diplo- 
matiques presents a Washington, choisi 
par ordrehierarchique et par rang d'an- 
ciennete, presidera les Seances du Conseil 
Directeur avec le caractere de vice- 
President. 

Le Gouvernement Am^ricain qui 
n'aurait pas de representant diplomati- 
que a Washington, pourra confier sa rep- 
resentation au sein du Conseil Directeur 
a n'importe quel autre membre du dit 
Conseil; dans ce dernier cas ledit Repre- 
sentant aura droit a un vote pour chaque 
representation. 

Le Conseil Directeur tiendra des 
seances ordinaires chaque mois, a I'excep- 
tion de ceux de juin, de juillet et d'aout, 
et des seances extraordinaires auxquelles 
convoquera le President de sa propre 
initiative, ou sur la demande de deux 
membres du Conseil. 

Sera suffisante la presence de cinq 
membres a I'une quelconque des seances 
ordinaires ou extraordinaires pour que le 
Conseil puisse fonctionner r^gulierement. 

Article V. 

Le Directeur General de V "Union 
Pan-Americaine " presentera a la seance 
ordinaire du mois de novembre un budget 
detaille des depenses de I'annee suivante. 
Ce budget, apres avoir ete approuve par 
le Conseil Directeur sera communique 
aux Gouvernements signataires, en indi- 
quant la cotisation annuelle fixee propor- 
tionnellement a la population de chaque 
pays, que devra payer chaque Gouverne- 
ment, au plus tard le premier juillet, a la 
Tresorerie de V "Union Pan-Americaine." 

Le Conseil Directeur nommera une 
Commission prise dans son sein, chargee 
d' examiner aux dates que le Conseil 
designera, le compte des frais de I'Union, 
coniormement a ce que determine le 
Reglement. 

Article VI. 

Le Conseil Directeur nommera: 

Ufi Directeur General qui aura h, sa 
charge F Administration de 1' "Union 
Pan-Am6ricaine " et la faculte de pousser 



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mas amplio desarrollo, de acuerdo con los 
presentes Estatutos, con el Reglamento y 
con las disposiciones del Consejo, ante el 
cual es responsable. 

Un Sub-Director, que desempenara 
tambien las funciones de Secretario del 
Consejo. 

El resto del personal y cuanto a el se 
refiera, se determinara por el Reglamento. 

El Director General dictara, con apro- 
baci6n del Consejo, un reglamento 
interior de los varios servicios de la 
Union Pan-Americana. 



Articulo VII 

La Uni6n Pan-Americana publicara 
un Boletln mensual relative d los tres 
primeros incisos del articulo II de esta 
Convencion, y los demas trabajos que el 
Consejo Directive determine. A fin de 
obtener la mayor exactitud en estas pubU- 
caciones, cada Estado signatario remitira 
directamente a esta Institucion, dos 
ejemplares de los documentos 6 publica- 
ciones oficiales que puedan relacionarse 
con los fines de la "Union". 



Toda la correspondencia y publica- 
ciones de la "Union" seran franqueadas 
gratuitamente por los Correos de las 
Repiiblicas Americanas. 

Articulo VIII 

La Union Pan-Americana se regira 
por el Reglamento que dicte el Consejo 
Directive con sujecion a estas bases. 



Articulo IX 

Por lo que respecta a la adhesion de las 
Naciones de America a la presence Con- 
vencion, ella sera comunicada al Secre- 
tario de Estado de los Estadoa Unidos de 
America, el que d, su vez, notificara for- 
malmente a cada uno de los Gobiernos 
eignatarios, de la referida ratificacion. 

En el caso de que uno de los Gobiernos 
deseara denunciar la presente Conven- 
cion, podra hacerlo notificando formal- 
mente su deseo al Secretario de Estado de 
los Estados Unidos de America, con dos 
anos de anticipacion. El Secretario de 
Estrado de los Estados Unidos de America, 
comunicare esta notificacion a los Gobi- 
ernos de la Union y al Consejo Directive. 
Cualquiera de los Gobiernos signataries 
que hubiese denunciado la presente Con- 
vencion, puede de nuevo adherirse a ella, 
de la manera indicada. 

En testimonio de lo cual, los Plenipo- 
tenciarios respectives ban firmado y 
sellado esta Convencion. 



its most ample development, in accord- 
ance with the present Statutes, with the 
Regulations, and with the resolutions of 
the Governing Board to whom he shall be 
responsible. 

An Assistant Director who shall also act 
as Secretary of the Governing Board. 

The remainder of the personnel and 
their duties shall be determined by the 
Regulations. 

The Director General shall prepare, 
with the approval of the Governing Board, 
the internal regulations by which the 
various services of the Pan-American 
Union shall be governed. 

Article VII. 

The Pan-American Union shall pub- 
lish a monthly bulletin dealing with the 
matters contained in the first paragraphs 
of article II of this Convention, as well as 
such other works as the Governing Beard 
may determine. In order to assure the 
greatest possible acciuacy in these publi- 
cations, each Signatory State shall trans- 
mit directly te the Pan-American 
Union two copies of the official docu- 
ments or publications which may relate to 
matters connected with the purposes of 
the Union. 

All the correspondence and publica- 
tions of the Union shall be carried free of 
charge by the mails of the American 
Republics. 

Article VIII. 

The Pan-American Union shall be 
governed by the Regulations adopted by 
the Governing Board in accordance with 
this Convention. 

Article IX. 

The ratification of the present Con- 
vention by the nations of America shall 
be communicated to the Secretary of 
State of the United States of America, 
who, in turn shall give formal notice of 
such ratification to each one of the Sig- 
natory States. 

In case one of the Signatory Govern- 
ments should desire to withdraw from the 
present Convention, it may do so by giv- 
ing formal notice of its intention to the 
Secretary of State of the United States of 
America, two years in advance; and the 
Secretary of State of the United States 
shall communicate such notice to the 
Governments of the Union and to the 
Governing Board. Any Signatory Gov- 
ernment which may have denounced the 
present Convention may again adhere to 
it in the manner prescribed above. 

In witness where of the respective 
Plenipotentiaries have signed this Con- 
vention, and fixed thereto their seals. 



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seu maior desenvolvimento, de accordo 
com OS presentes estatutos, com o regu- 
lam^nto e com as disposigoes do Conselho, 
junta ao qiial e responsavel. 

Um Sub-Director que desempenhara 
tamben as funcgoes de Secretario do 
Conselho. 

resto do pessoal, e quanto a elle se 
referir, se determinara pelo regulamento. 

Director Geral fara, com a approvayao 
do Conselho, um regulamento interno 
para os varios servifos da "Uniao Pan- 
Americana. 



a son plus grand developpement, d'accord 
avec les presents Statuts, avec le Regle- 
ment et avec les dispositions du Conseil, 
devant lequel il est responsable. 

Un Sous-Directeur, lequel remplira 
egalement les fonctions de Secretaire du 
Conseil. 

Le reste du Personnel, et tout se qui 
s'y rapporte, sera determine par le Rfegle- 
ment. 

Le Directeur General dictera, avec 
I'approbation du Conseil, un R^glement 
interieur pour les divers services de 
r "Union Pan-Americaine." 



Artigo VI L 

A "Uniao Pan-Americana" publicara, 
um Boletim mensal relative aos tres pri- 
meiros paragraphos do artigo II d'esta 
Convengao, e os demais trabalhos que o 
Conselho Director determinar. Com o 
fim de obter a maior exactidao n'estas 
publicagoes, cada Estado signatario re- 
mettera, directamente, a esta instituifao, 
dois exemplares dos documentos ou pub- 
licaf oes omciaes que se possam relacionar 
com OS fins da "Uniao." 



Toda a correspondencia e publicagoes 
da Uniao serao franqueadas gratuitamente 
pelos Correios das Republicas Americanas. 



Artigo VIII. 

A "Uniao Pan-Americana" se regera 

Eelo regulamento que fizer o Conselho 
irector, de accordo com estas bases. 



Artigo IX. 

No que diz respeito a adhesao daa 
Nagoes da America a presente Convengao, 
ella sera communicado ao Secretario de 
Estado dos Estados Unidos da America, 
que, por sua vez, notificard. formalmente 
a cada um dos Governos signatarios a 
referida ratificagao. 

No case de que um dos Governos deseje 
denimciar a presente Convengao, podera 
fazel-o notificando formalmente o seu 
desejo ao Secretario de Estado dos Estados 
Unidos da America, com dois annos de an- 
tecipagao. Secretario de Estado dos 
Estados Unidos da America communicara 
esta notificagao aos Governos da Uniao e 
ao Conselho Director. Qualquer dos Gov- 
ernos signatarios, que tiver denunciado 
a presente Convengao, poderd. novamente 
adherir-se a ella do modo indicado. 

Em i6 do que, os Plenipotenciarios 
respectivos assignaram e sellaram esta 
convengao. 



Article VII. 

L' "Union Pan-Am^ricaine " publiera 
un Bulletin mensuel relatif aux troia 
premiers paragraphes de Particle II de 
cette Convention, ainsi que les autres 
travaux que d^terminera le Conseil 
Directeur. Dans le but d'obtenir la plus 
grande exactitude dans ces publica- 
tions, chaque I^itat signataire remettra 
directement, k cette Institution, deux 
exemplaires des documents ou publica- 
tions qui pomraient avoir trait aux fins 
que poursuit 1' "Union." 

Toute la correspondance ainsi que les 
publications de 1' Union seront affranchies 
gratuitement par les Postes des Republi- 
ques Americames. 

Article VIII. 

L' ' ' Union Pan-Am6ricaine " sera r^gie 
par le Reglement que dictera le Conseil 
Directeur en se conformant aux presentes 
bases. 

Article IX. 

En ce qui touche a I'adhesion des Na- 
tions d'Amerique k la presente Conven- 
tion, elle sera communiquee au Secretaire 
d 'Etats des Etats-Unis d ' Am^rique , lequel , 
a son tour, fera notification formelle k 
chacun des Gouvernements signatairea de 
ladite ratification. 

Au cas oil Fun des Gouvernements 
d&irerait d^noncer la presente Conven- 
tion, il pourra le faire en notifiant for- 
mellement son intention au Secretaire 
d'Etat des Etats-Unis avec deux ans 
d'anticipation. Le Secretaire d'Etat des 
Etats-Unis d'Amerique communiquera 
cette notification aux Gouvernements de 
rUnion et au Conseil Directeur. N'im- 
porte lequel des Gouvernements signa- 
taires qui aurait denonce la presente Con- 
vention, pourra de nouveau y adherer de 
la maniere indiquee. 

En foi de quoi, les Pienipotentiaires 
respectifs ont sign6 et scelle cette Con- 
vention. 



176 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFEEEXCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires A los once dfas del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espanol, portu- 
gues, ingles y frances y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de 
la Republica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enA iarlas 
por la via diplomdtica a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina: — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieii. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ardstegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Repdblica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Repilblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Repdblica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peru. — Eugenio 

Larrabure y UnAnue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle yPardo. 
Por la Republica de el Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
Por la RepMlica del Uruguay. — Gonzalio 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Made and signed in the City of Buenos 
Aires, on the eleventh day of the month 
of August in the year one thousand nine 
hundred and ten in English, Spanish, 
Portuguese and French, and deposited in 
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the 
Government of the Argentine Republic, sn 
order that certified copies thereof be made, 
and forwarded through diplomatic chan- 
nels to each one of the Signatory States. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gustao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luia 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Maxio 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Pdrez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calderdn, 
Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 177 



Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 

Sortuguez, iuglez e francez e entregue ao 
[inisterio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias avithenticadas, que serao enviadas, 
por via diplomatica, a cada um dos Esta- 
dos signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicip da Gama, Jos^ L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile.— Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto An- 
cizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana.- — Am^rico 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruizr 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua.— Msmuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — -Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peril. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Un4nue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 

74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 ^12 



Fait et sign^ k Buenos- Aires le onzifeme 
jour du mois d'aoiit mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, anglais, portugais et franyais 
et d4pos6 au Ministfere des Affaires Etran- 
gferes de la Republique Argentine afin 
qu'il en soit fait des copies authentiqu^es 
qui seront envoyees, par la voie diplo- 
matique, ^ chacun des Etats signataires. 



Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — ^Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Brisil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — ^Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Ma-, 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Ro- 
berto Ancfzar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Vald6s, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo P^rez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Am4r- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras .—Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisdrio 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teodo- 
sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Pirou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Un4nue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 
deron, Jos^ Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su4rez. 

Pour la Republique de I' Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M., Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX S. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION. 

Homenaje al Senor Andrew Carnegie. 

Los que subscriben, Delagados de las 
Repiiblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus Gobier- 
nos, ban aprobado la siguiente Resolu- 
cion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, resuelve: 

* I. — La Cuarta Conferencia Interna- 
cional Americana declara, que Andrew 
Carnegie merece bien de las Repiiblicas 
de America. 

II. — La Union de las Republicas 
Americanas hara acufiar, por cuenta de 
los Gobiernos en ella representados, una 
medalla de oro, con estas leyendas en 
lenguainglesa: en el anverso: "A Andrew 
Carnegie, las Republicas Americanas"; 
en el re verso: "Benefactor de la Humani- 
dad". 

III. — Que la medalla a que se refiere el 
articulo segundo, junto con una copia de 
esta Resolucion y de los documentos que 
con ella se relacionan, le sean entregados 
al Sefior Andrew Carnegie en sesion espe- 
cial del Consejo Directive de la Union. 

Hecbo y firmado en la ciudad de Bue- 
nos Aires, i, los cuatro dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en espa- 
fiol, portugues, ingles y frances, y deposi- 
tado en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exte- 
riores de la Republica Argentina, d fin de 
que se eaquen copias certificadas para 
enviarlas, por la via diplomatica, d cada 
uno de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowd er, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

178 



RESOLUTION. 

Homage to Mr. Andrew Carnegie. 

The undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly au- 
thorized by their Governments, have 
approved the following resolution : 

The Fourth International American 
Conference resolves: 

1st. — The Fourth International Ameri- 
can Conference declares that Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie deserves the gratitude of the 
American Republics. 

2nd. — The Union of the American Re- 
publics, on behalf of the Governments 
therein represented, shall have a gold 
medal struck bearing these inscriptions in 
English . On the obverse ' ' The American 
Republics to Andrew Carnegie", and on 
the reverse "Benefactor of Humanity". 

3rd. — That the medal referred to in 
Article 2 hereof together with a copy of 
this Resolution and of the documents 
thereto relating, shall be presented to 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie at a special session 
of the Governing Board of the Union. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires on the Fom-th day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 
in order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the Signatory 
Nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 



APPENDIX S 



CUABTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUfAO. 

Homenagcm ao Senhor Andreiv Carnegie. 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devid- 
amente autorizados pelos seus Governos, 
appro varam a seguinte Resolu^ao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana resolve: 

I. — A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana declara que Andrew Carnegie 
merece a homenagem das Republicas da 
America. 

II. — A Uniao das Republicas Amer- 
icanas fara cunhar por conta dos Governos 
n'ella representados, uma medalha de 
ouro, com as seguintes legendas em inglez . 
No verso: "A Andrew Carnegie as Repub- 
licas Americanas"; e no reverso: "Bem- 
feitor da Humanidade " . 

III. — Que a medalha a que se re fere o 
artigo segundo, seja entregue ao Senhor 
Andrew Carnegie, juntamente com uma 
copia d'esta Resolugao e com os docu- 
mentos que com ella se relacionam, em 
sessao especial do Conselho Director da 
Uniao. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos quatro dias do mez de Agosto 
de mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
portuguez, inglez e francez, e archivado 
no Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas, que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio BeJ- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Ze hallos. 



RESOLUTION. 

Hommage a Monsieur Andretv Carnegie. 

Les soussignes, delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrifeme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, de- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvemements, 
ont approuve la Resolution suivante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine reunie a Buenos-Aires 
resout: 

I. La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine declare que Andrew 
Carnegie a bien merite 1 'hommage des 
Republiques d'Amerique. 

II. L'Union des Republiques Am6r- 
icaines fera frapper, pour le compte des 
Gouvemements y repr^sentes, une me- 
daille d'or avec cette inscription en langue 
anglaise: sur la face: "A Andrew Carne- 
gie les Republiques Americaines " et sur 
le revers: "Bienfaiteur de FHumanit^." 

III. Que la medaille dont fait mention 
I'Article II, ainsi qu'une copie de cette 
Resolution et des Documents qui s'y 
rapportent, soient remises a M. Andrew 
Carnegie en seance speciale du Conseil 
Directeur de I'Union. 

Fait et signe dans la Ville de Buenos- 
Aires, le quatre aout mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, en portugais, en anglais et 
en frangais, et depose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrangeres de la R^publique 
Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoyees par la 
voie diplomatique a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

179 



180 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For los Eatados Unidos del Brazil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gaina, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha. 

For la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codeci- 
do, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For la Republica de Colombia.— Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For la Repiiblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
For la Repiiblica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — ^Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dfa, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

P^rez Alonso. 
For la Repiiblica de Fanamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzdlezr, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Republica del Feru. — Carlos Alvarez 

Calder6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de el Salvador. — Federico 

Mejla, Francisco Martinez SuArez. 
For la Repiiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose .L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia .—Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rico. — Alferdo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Calos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonza- 
lo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of ii/aia".— Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Faraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Feru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calder6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramii'ez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos^ Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 181 



Pclos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pela Republica do Chile.— Miguel Cruc- 
haga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin Fou- 

chard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Estev^ Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay.— Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
Pela Republica do Salvador. — Frederico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour les Etals-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Co- 
decido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Ro- 
berto Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique de Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d^ Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique de Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victo- 
riano Salada Alvarez, Luis P^rez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Beli- 
sario Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Carlos 
Alvarez Calder6n, Jose Antonio de 
Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fed- 
erico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M.Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX T. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION. 

Ferrocarril Pan- Americano. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respec- 
tivos Gobiernos, han aprobado la siguiente 
Resoluci6n: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

1.° Prorrogar la existencia, con todas 
sus atribuciones, del Comite del Ferro- 
carril Pan-Americano en Washington al 
que, por los importantes servicios presta- 
dos ya, expresa la Conferencia sus agra- 
decimientos. 

2.° Se confirman las resoluciones toma- 
das por la Tercera Conferencia Pan- 
Americana, sobre este mismo pun to. 

3.° Teniendo en cuenta el elevado 
alcance moral y material de la completa 
realizacion de la importante obra pro- 
yectada, la Conferencia encarga al Comite 
permanente del Ferrocarril Pan-Ameri- 
cano de Washington que, a la mayor 
brevedad posible, reuna todos los estudios 
y datos tecnicos y financieros necesarios 
para la formacion de un piano y presu- 
puesto definitivos, destinados a la con- 
struccion de la obra; encarece a los paises 
interesados en su realizacion, que adopten 
y comuniquen al Comite permanente del 
Ferrocarril Pan-Americano las medidas 
mas eficaces, tocantes a las garantias 6 
subsidios que puedan ofrecer para facilitar 
la consecucion de este gran deseo comun, 
a fin de que dicho Comite, en vista de 
estas comunicaciones, proponga la forma 
prdctica de solucionar este problema, que 
seria imposible, 6 por lo menos, de muy 
remota realizacion, si quedara abando- 
nado a la accion aislada de algunos de los 
paises especialmente interesados en 61. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires a los once dias del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espafiol, ingles, 
portugues, y frances y depositado en el 

182 



RESOLUTION. 

Pan-American Railroad. 

The undersigned. Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented in the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly au- 
thorized by their respective Governments, 
have approved the following Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 

resolves : 

1st. — To extend the period of existence 
together with all its a,ttributes, of the Pan 
American Railroad Committee at Washing- 
ton to which the Conference expresses its 
thanks for the important services it has 
already rendered. 

2nd. — The resolutions of the Third Pan- 
American Conference in regard to this 
matter are confirmed. 

3rd. — Considering the high moral and 
material scope of the full accomplishment 
of this important project, the Conference 
charges the permanent Pan-American 
Railway Committee at Washington with 
the collection, as speedily as possible, of 
the reports and technical and financial 
data necessary for the draAving up of a 
definite scheme and estimates for the con- 
struction of the work and urges the coun- 
tries interested in its accomplishment 
that they adopt and communicate, to the 
Permanent Pan-American Railroad Com- 
mittee the most effective measures rela- 
tive to the guarantees or subsidies which 
they can offer for facilitating the attain- 
ment of this great common end, in order 
that the said Commitee, having regard 
to such communications, may suggest the 
practical form of the solution of this prob- 
lem, which would be imposible, or, at least, 
of very remote realization, if left entirely 
to the isolated action of some of the coun- 
tries especially interested . 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the eleventh day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 



APPENDIX T 



CITARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUgiO. 

Estrada de Ferro Pan- Americana. 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, de- 
vidamente autorizados pelos seus respec- 
tivos Governos, approvaram a seguinte 
resolugao : 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve : 

1.° — Prorogar, com todas as suas at- 
tribuigoes a subsistencia da Commissao 
da Estrada de Ferro Pan-Americana em 
Washington, a qual, pelos relevantes ser- 
vi90s ja prestados, a Conferencia expressa 
seu agradecimento. 

2.° — Confirmam-se as resolu^oes to- 
madas pela Terceira Conferencia Pan- 
Americana sob re este mesmo ponto. 

3.° — Tendo em consideragao o elevado 
alcance moral e material da completa 
realizagao da importante obra projectada, 
a Conferencia recommenda a Commissao 
permanente da Estrada de Ferro Pan- 
Americana, de Washington, que com a 
maior brevidade possivel, reuna os es- 
tudos e dados technicos e financeiros neces- 
sarios para a formagao de uma planta e 
orgamento definitivos, destinados a con- 
struc^ao da obra; recommenda aos paizes 
interessados na sua realizagao, que 
adoptem e communiquem a Commissao 
permanente da Estrada de Ferro Pan- 
Americana as medidas mais efficazes, 
referentea as garantias ou subsidies que 
possam offerecer para facilitar o prosegui- 
mento d'este grande desejo commun, 
com fim de que a mencionada Commis- 
sao, em vista d'estas communicafoes, pro- 
ponha a forma pratica de resolver o prob- 
lema, que seria impossivel, ou, pelo menos, 
de muito remota realizagao, se ficasse 
entregue a acgao isolada de alguns dos 
paizes especialmente n'elle interessados. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e franoez, e entregue 



RESOLUTION. 

Chemin de Fer Pan-Americain. 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, du- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine, reunie a Buenos- 
Aires, resout: 

1.° — De proroger 1' existence, avec 
toutes ses attributions, du Comite du 
Chemin de Fer Pan-Americain a Wash- 
ington, auquel, pour les importants 
services deja rendus, la Conference ex- 
prime ses sentiments de reconnaissance. 

2.° — Sont confirmees les resolutions 
prises par la Troisieme Conference Pan- 
Americaine sur ce meme point. 

3.° — Tenant compte de la haute portee 
morale et materielle de la complete realisa- 
tion de I'oeuvre importante projetee, la 
Conference charge le Comite permanent 
du Chemin de Fer Pan-Americain, aWash- 
ington, de reunir dans le plus bref delai, 
toutes les etudes et renseignements 
techniques et financiers necessaires pour 
la formation d'un plan et d'un budget 
definitifs, destines a la construction de 
I'oeuvre; decide de faire un appel aux 
pays interesses a sa realisation pour qu'ils 
adoptent et communiquent au Comite 
permanent du Chemin de Fer Pan- 
Americain, les mesures les plus efficaces 
ayant trait aux garanties ou subsides 
qu'ils peuvent offrir pour faciliter la 
realisation de ce grand desir commun, afin 
que ledit Comite, en vue de ces com- 
munications, propose la forme pratique 
de solutionner ce probleme, lequel serait 
d'une realisation impossible, ou du moins 
trfes lointaine, s'il restait abandonne a 
Taction Isolde des pays qui en sont 
specialement interesses. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le onzieme 
jour du mois d'aout mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, anglais, portugais etfran^ais, 
et depose au Ministere des Affaires 

183 



184 FOURTH INTEENATIONAXi COXFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Repiiblica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificados para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomd,tica, A cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Repiiblica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. ^Alivedo 

Volio. 
Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antoni.o 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. —JjUis 

Toledo Herrarte, Munuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Repiiblica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua.— MdMuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Repiiblica del Peril. — Eugenio La- 

rrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Rep ublica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 



French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 
in order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the Signatory 
Nations through the appropriate diplo- 
fnatic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
\Miite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — ^Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio La- 

rrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 

nuel Diaz Rodriguez, C4sar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 185 



ao Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

'Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Mmrtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocomal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Ani- 
bal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbon ell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo HeiTate, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

r6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Am^zga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — ^Ma- 
nuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Etrangeres de la R^publique Argentine, 
afin qu'il en soit fait des copies authen- 
tiquees qui seront envoy^es, par la voie 
diplomatique, k chacun des l^^tats sig- 
nataires. 

Pour les Etats- Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
WTiite, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pour les Etats- Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — -Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine — Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala — Luia 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Beli- 
sario Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y TJnanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats- Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX U 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION. 

Comunicaciones por vapor. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respecti- 
vos Gobiernos, ban aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

1.° — Que debe establecerse, tan pronto 
como sea posible, el comercio directo 
entre las Naciones Americanas, siempre 
con sujecion a los reglamentos expedidos 
reciprocamente por las Naciones directa- 
mente interesadas. 

2° — Recomendar a las Naciones repre- 
sentadas en esta Conferencia, que cele- 
bren entre si reciprocas Convenciones, 
con el fin de establecer servicios directos, 
por vapor, adecuados a las necesidades 
respectivas del comercio y favoreciendo la 
construccion, para dichos servicios, de va- 
pores de mayor capacidad y velocidad 
compatibles con la economia comercial. 

3.° — Recomendar que, en todos los 
casos en que una 6 mas de las Naciones 
representadas en esta Conferencia estable- 
cieran, por iniciativa nacional, una linea 
6 lineas de vapores para el trafico con 
otra u otras de dichas Naciones, los buques 
destinados a tal servicio, gocen en los 
puertos de transito, de todos los priA'ile- 
gios otorgados a los buques que enarbolen 
la bandera 6 banderas de dicho puerto 6 
puertos de transito. 

4.0 — Recomendar que en adelante no se 
otorgue a ninguna empresa de ferrocarril, 
sea particular 6 controlada por el Go- 
bierno, concesion alguna por la cual 
pueda aquella quedar autorizada para 
establecer, en favor de buques que entren 
6 salgan de los puertos del respectivo 
Estado, privilegios 6 rebajas de tarifas 
que no sean concedidas igualmente a los 
buques empleados en el comercio directo 
con otros Estados representados en esta 
Conferencia. 



RESOLUTION. 

Steamship service. 

The undersigned. Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following Reso- 
lution : 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

1st. Direct commerce, subject to joint 
regulation by the States carrying on such 
trade, should be established at the earliest 
opportunity : 



2nd. It is recommended that the States 
represented at this Conference should 
conclude conventions among themselves, 
providing for direct and adequate steam- 
ship service; the vessels to be built of the 
highest speed and largest size consistent 
with economical commercial service. 



3rd. To recommend that in all cases 
where one or more of the States repre- 
sented at this Conference shall establish, 
through State initiative, a line or lines of 
steamers to one or more of the States, that 
such vessels shall enjoy all the pri\dleges 
at ports of call that are accorded to vessels 
flying the flag or flags of such ports. 



4th. That in future no rebating railway 
pri^dleges shall be granted by any rail- 
ways, whether private or Government 
controlled, which shall not be granted to 
vessels entering and clearing the ports of 
such States, running in direct trade from 
other States represented at this Confer- 
ence. 



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RESOLUfAO. RESOLUTION. 



Communicagoes por vapor. 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta 
Conferencia Intemacional Americana, 
devidamente autorizados pelos seus re- 
Bpectivos Govemos, approvaram a se- 
guinte Resolugao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Intemacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

1°. — Que se deve estabelecer, logo que 
f6r possivel, o commercio directo entre as 
Nagoes Americanas, sempre de accordo 
com OS regulamentos reciprocamente 
expedidos pelas Nagoes directamente 
interessadas. 

2° — Recommendar as Na^oes repre- 
sentadas n'esta Conferencia, que cele- 
brem entre si Convengoes reciprocas, 
com fim de estabelecer servifos directos 
por vapor, adequados as necessidades 
respectivas do commercio, e favoregam a 
construcgao, para o referido servigo, de 
vapores da maior capacidade e velocidade, 
compativeis com a economia commercial. 

3.° — Recommendar que, em todos os 
casos em que uma ou mais Nagoes repre- 
sentadas n'esta Conferencia estabele- 
cerem, por iniciativa nacional, uma 
linha ou linhas de vapores para o trafico 
com outra ou outras das referidas Nagoes, 
OS navios destinados a esse servigo, gozem, 
nos portos de transito, de todos os privi- 
legios outorgados aos navios que tenham 
bandeira ou bandeiras do referido porto 
ou portos de transito. 

4.° — Recommendar que para o futuro, 
nao se outorgue a nenhuma empresa de 
estrada de ferro, partic ular ou fiscalizada 
pelo Govemo, concessao alguma em vir- 
tude da qual possa ficar autorizada a 
estabelecer, em favor dos navios que 
entrarem ou sahirem dos portos do re- 
spective Estado, privilegios ou abati- 
mente de tarifas que nao sejam concedidos 
igualmente aos navios empregados no 
commercio directo com outros Estados 
representados n'esta Conferencia. 



Communications par vapeur. 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, du- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernementa 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Internationale 
Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, resout : 

1." — Que doit gtre 6tabli, aussi prompte- 
ment que possible, le commerce direct 
entre les Nations Americaines, toujours 
avec sujetion aux Reglements etablis 
reciproquement par les Nations directe- 
ment interessees. 

2° — Recommander aux Nations re- 
presentees dans cette Conference, de 
celebrer entre elles des Conventions 
reciproques, dans le but d'etablir des 
services directs par vapeur, adequates 
aux necessites respectives du commerce, 
et en favorisant la construction, pour 
lesdits services, de vapeurs de plus grande 
capacite et vitesse, compatibles avec 
I'economie commerciale. 

3."^ — Recommander que, dans tons les 
cas dans lesquelsune ou plusieurs Nations 
representees a cette Conference, etablira- 
ient, par initiative nationale, une ou 
des lignes de vapeurs pour le trafic avec 
une autre, ou d'autres de ces Nations, les 
navires destines a ce service jouissent, 
dans les ports de transit, de tous les 
privileges accordes aux batiments battant 
pavilion dudit ou desdits ports de transit. 

4.° — Recommander que dorenavant il 
ne soit accorde a aucune entreprise de 
chemin de fer, qu'elle soit particuliere 
ou contr61ee par le Gouvernement, 
aucune concession par laquelle elles 
puissent 6tre autorisees a etablir, en 
faveur de batiments , qui entrent ou 
sortent des ports de I'Etat respectif, des 
privileges ou des diminutions de tarifs 
qui ne soient pas egalement concedes 
aux batiments employes pour le commerce 
direct avec d'autres Etats representes a 
cette Conference.. 

187 



188 FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



5.° — Recomendar d los Estados represen- 
tados en esta Conferencia, el estudio de 
los medlos y condiciones bajo las cuales 
pueda establecerse entre las Republicas 
Americanas la reciproca libertad del co- 
mercio de cabotaje, procur^ndose que 
dicho estudio sea sometido a la proxima 
ConferencialntemacionalPan- Americana, 

6.° — Recomendar 4 las Naciones que 
actualmente tienen en vigencia contratos 
relatives 4 comunicaciones per vapor de 
caracter opcional respecto de determi- 
nados puertos de otros paises americanos, 
procuren establecerlas con caracter obli- 
gatorio, en el menor tiempo posible. 

7.° — Recomendar el establecimiento de 
lineas nacionales de vapor entre aquellos 
puertos que no tengan tal servicio, por va- 
pores de matricula americana con el fin de 
asegurar lineas de comunicacion continuas 
y no interrumpidas de Norte a Sur, tanto 
en las costas del Pacifico como en las del 
AtMntico, ejercitando al mismo tiempo 
la accion gubernamental, a efecto de que 
las Empresas propietarias de las lineas 
parciales, coordinen sus servicios en tal 
forma, que se evite la perdida de tiempo 
y las intermitencias en el transporte de 
mercaderias, correspondencia y pasajeros. 



5th. To recommend to the States rep- 
resented at this Conference a study of the 
conditions and means by which reciprocal 
liberty of commerce may be established 
in the coasting trade of the American 
Republics, and that the result of such 
study be laid before the next American 
Conference. 

6th. To recommend that States now 
having contracts in force providing for 
optional steamship communication with 
ports of other countries of America, de- 
mand obligatory and rapid service with 
such ports. 



7th. To recommend the establishment 
of connecting lines between such ports as 
have no American steamship service in 
order that there may be a continuous 
unbroken connection from north to south 
on both coasts, Pacific and Atlantic, and 
by Governmental action to induce all 
connecting lines to cooperate in such 
manner as to avoid loss of time and inter- 
mittent handling of freight, mail and 
passengers. 



8." — ^Recomendar que, en todos los 
casos en que los buques realicen su itine- 
rario y escalas en una sola direccion, scan 
tomadas las medidas conducentes para 
proveer fletes de re'orno que aseguren los 
^-iajes en sentido inverso. 

9.° — Dada su indiscutible importancia, 
como factores contribuyentes a la facilidad 
y permanencia de las condiciones favor- 
ables de un comercio internacional flore- 
ciente, recomiendase el establecimiento 
de servicios bancarios y cablegraficos di- 
rectos y la adopcion de un sistema comun 
de pesas y medidas. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires a los doce dias del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espaiiol, ingles, 
portugues, y frances y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de 
la Republica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomatica, a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 



8th. To recommend that in all cases in 
which vessels proceed in one direction 
only from the ports of one American State 
to another, that reciprocal measures shall 
be taken to provide return cargoes war- 
ranting return service. 

9th. In view of the immense importance 
to the development of steamship lines as 
factors contributing to facility and per- 
manence of flourishing trade conditions, 
it is recommended that direct banking 
and cable service be established and that 
a common system of weights and measures 
be adopted. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twelfth day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
m Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and deposited in the Ministryof 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 
in order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each of the Signatory Na- 
tions through appropriate diplomatic 
channels. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 

White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 

Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 

Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 

Reinsch, Da\-id Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 

Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 

Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 

Salas, Jose A. Terrj', Estanislao S. 

Zeballos. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 189 



5." — Recommendar aos Estados repre- 
eentados n'esta Conferencia, o estudo dos 
meios e condi^ioes em que seja possivel 
estabelecer entre as Republicas Ameri- 
canas a reciproca liberdade do commercio 
de cabotagem, tratando de que este eetudo 
Beja submettido a proxima Conferencia 
Internacional Pan- Americana . 

6.° — Recommendar as Nagoes, que 
actualmente tem em \dgor contractos de 
opgao relativos as communicaf oes a vapor 
com determinados portos de outros paizes 
americanos, que procurem estabelecel-as 
de modo obrigatorio, dentro do menor 
tempo possivel. 

7." — Recommendar o estabelecimento 
de linhas nacionaes a vapor, entre portos 
que nao tenham semelbante servigo feito 
por vapores de matricula americana, com 
fim de assegurar a existencia de linhas 
de communicafao continua e constante 
do Norte ao Sul, tanto nas costas do Paci- 
fico, como nas do Atlantico, exercendo, 
ao mesmo tempo, a acgao governamental 
com fim de que as empresas proprietarias 
das linhas parciaes, combinem os seus 
ser\'i5'os de tal forma, que se evitem perda 
de tempo e intermittencias no transporte 
das mercadorias, correspondencia e pas- 
eageiros. 

8.° — Recommendar que, em todos os 
casos em que os navios sigam o seu itine- 
rario e escalas n'uma so direcgao, sejam 
tomadas medidas tendentes a propor- 
cionar fretes de regresso, que permittam 
poder contar com as viagens no sentido 
in verso. 

9.° — Dada a sus indiscutivel impor- 
tancia, como factores da facilidade e per- 
manencia das condifoes favoraveis a um 
commercio internacional florescente, re- 
commenda-se o estabelecimento de ser- 
vigos bancarios e telegraphicos directos, e a 
adopgao de um systema commum de pesos 
e medidas. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos doze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue 
ao Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 



5.° — De recommander aux Etats repre- 
sentes a cette Conference, I'etude des 
moyens et des conditions par lesquels 
on pent ^tablir entre les Republiques 
Americaines, la liberte r^ciproque du 
commerce de cabotage, en faisant en 
sorte que ladite etude soit soumise a la 
prochaine Conference Internationale Pan- 
Americaine. 

6.° — De recommander aux Nations qui 
ont actuellement en vigueur des contrats 
relatifs a des communications par vapeur 
ayant un caractere d' option, se rap- 
portant a des ports determines d'autres- 
pays am^ricains, de faire leur possible 
pour les rendre obligatoires dans le plvis 
bref delai. 

7.° — De recommander I'etablissement 
de lignes nationales de vapeiu-s, entre les 
ports qui ne possedent pas un tel service 
assure par des vapours de matricule 
americaine, dans le but d'etablir des 
lignes de commim.ication continues et non 
interrompues du Nord au Sud, tant sur 
les cotes du Pacifique que sur celles de 
I'Atlantique, en exergant en meme temps 
Paction gouvemementale, de maniere 
que les entreprises proprietaires des lignes 
partielles, coordonnent leurs services de 
telle sorte, que soient evitees la perte de 
temps et les interruptions dans le transport 
des marchandises, de la correspondance 
et des passagers. 

8.° — De recommander que, dans tous 
les cas oil les batiments realiseraient leurs 
itineraires et escales dans une seule direc- 
tion, soient prises les mesm-es se rappor- 
tant au fret de re tour qui assurent les 
voyages en sens inverse. 

9.° — Etant donnee leur indiscutable 
importance com me facteiirs contribuant 
a la facilite et a la permanence des condi- 
tions favorables d'un commerce interna- 
tional florissant, est recommande I'etablis- 
sement de services de banque et de cables 
directs, ainsi que I'adoption d'un systeme 
commun des poids et mesm-es. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le douzieme 
jour du mois d'aofit mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, en anglais, en portugais et en 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des 
Affaii'es Etrangeres de la Republique 
Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoyees, par la 
voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Heniy 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 



190 FOURTH INTERN ATIONAXi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For los Estados TJnidos del Brasil.—Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jos6 L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo 
Bilac, Gastao da Cunlia, Herculano de 
Freitas. 

For la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For la Repiiblica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For la Repilblica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For la Republica Dominicana. — -Americo 

Lugo. 
For la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
For la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For la Republica de Fanamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Republica del Feru. — Eugenio 

Larrabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de El Salvador. — -Frede- 

rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Fanama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Faraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic 0/ Peru. —Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Ma- 
nuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERlSrATIOISrAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 191 



Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gaina, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. ^Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana . — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

CArdenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica de Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue Carlos Alvarez Calderon, 

Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez . 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Ma- 
nuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 3os6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Poiir la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luia 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Ha'iti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Arriaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou.- — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Ame- 
zaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX V (1), 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION 

Documentos consulares 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Repiiblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, de- 
bidamente autorizados por sus respectivos 
Gobiemos, ban aprobado la siguiente Res- 
olucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, re- 
Buelve: 

I. — Recomendar a los paises que exigen 
el manifiesto general de entrada, que su- 
priman la certificacion consular de dicbo 
manifiesto. 

II. — Recomendar a los paises que ban 
adoptado el manifiesto consular de em- 
barque, la adopcion del modelo de mani- 
fiesto que se acompaiia. 

III. — Recomendar a los paises que 
adopten el formulario de factura consular 
agregado, que no exijen la certificacion 
consular del conocimiento. 

IV. — Recomendar el empleo de la fac- 
tura consular adjunta. — Esta llevara en su 
dorso linicamente los rubros destinados a 
las declaraciones del vendedor, fabricante 
6 agente, y del certificado consular, cuya 
redaccion se bara en conformidad a las 
disposiciones legales de cada pais. 



V. — Recomendar a los paises que 
adopten el modelo de facturas presentado, 
no exigir el certificado de origen, cuyas 
indicaciones estan contenidas en dicho 
modelo de factura. 

VI . — Que los derecbos consulares deben 
eer moderados y no llegar a constituir un 
modo indixecto de aumentar las entradas 
provenientes de los derecbos de aduanas; 
y se declara que es conveniente para los 
intereses del comercio internacional del 
Continente, que en cuanto fuere posible 
estos derecbos se limiten, sea cual fuere 
la forma adoptada para su percepcion, a 
cubrir, los gastos ocasionados por el ser- 
Vicio consular. 

VII. — Recomendar a los Gobiemos de 
los paises representados en esta Conferen- 
cia, que expidan & sus consulados instruc- 
ciones ordendndoles man ten er abiertas 
sus oficinas para la visaci6n de los docu- 
mentos consulares durante las mismas 
boras en que funcionen las aduanas de los 
paises en que se ballaren establecidas, y 
recomendar & los Gobiemos que insistan 
en el cumplimiento de las instrucciones 
anteriores. 
192 



RESOLUTION 

Consular documents 
The undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly au- 
thorized by their respective Governments, 
have approved the following Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

1. To recommend that the countries 
that require a general entry manifest shall 
not require any consular certification of 
such manifest. 

2. To recommend that the countries 
that have adopted the consular manifest 
of shipment, adopt the form of manifest 
herewith appended. 

3. To recommend that those countries 
which adopt the annexed form of consular 
invoice shall not require a consular certi- 
fication of the bills of lading. 

4. To recommend that the countries 
represented in the present Conference 
adopt the form of consular invoice here- 
with appended. This form would have 
on the back only the headings under 
which the sellers or agents make their 
declarations, and those headings under 
which the consular certificate is made. 
The forms of certificates or declarations 
would be filled in under these headings 
according to the legal requirements of 
each country. 

5. To recommend that the countries 
which adopt the form of invoice herewith 
submitted shall not require the "Certifi- 
cate of Origin," the substance of which is 
contained in said form of invoice. 

6. Consular fees should be moderate 
and should not constitute an indirect 
method of increasing customs duties. It 
is believed that it is for the best interest 
of the international commerce of this Con- 
tinent that these fees, no matter what 
method is employed for their collection, 
be limited as far as possible to the amounts 
necessary to cover the cost of maintaining 
the consular service. 

7. To recommend that the respective 
Governments of the countries represented 
in this Conference shall instruct their con- 
suls to keep their oflices open for the vise- 
ing of consular documents during the 
same hour kept by the custom bouse of 
the countries where the said consular 
ofiices may be located. It is also recom- 
mended that the Governments see that 
their consuls comply with such instruc- 
tions. 



APPENDIX V (1) 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUpAO 

Documentos consulares 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das Re- 
publicas representadas na Quarta Confe- 
rencia Internacional Americana, devida- 
mente autorizados pelo3 seus respectivos 
Governos, approvaram a seguinte Reso- 
lufao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

1." Recommendar aos paizes que exi- 
gem manifesto geral de entrada, a sup- 
pressao do attestado consular d'esse 
manifesto. 

2° Recommendar aos paizes, que adop- 
tarem o manifesto consular de embarque, 
a adopfao do modelo de manifesto annexo. 

3.° Recommendai' aos paizes, que adop- 
tarem formuiario de factura consular an- 
nexo, a nao exigencia do attestado consu- 
lar do conhecimento. 

4.° Recommendar aos paizes represen- 
tados na presente Conferencia o emprego 
da factura consular annexa. Esta levara 
no dorso as rubricas destinadas as declara- 
foes do vendedor fabricante, ou agente, e 
do attestado consular, cuja redacgao se 
fara de accordo com as prescripfoes legaes 
de cada paiz. 



RESOLUTION 

Documents consulaires 
Les soussignes, Del^gues des R6pu- 
bliques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, du- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine, reunie a Buenos- 
Aires, resout: 

I. Recommander aux pays qui exigent 
le manifeste general d'entree, qu'ils 
n' exigent pas le certificat consulaire du 
dit manifeste. 

II. Recommander aux pays qui ont 
adopte le manifeste consulaire d'em- 
barquement, I'adoption du module de 
manifeste ci-joint. 

III. Recommander aux pays qui adop- 
tent le formulaire de facture consulaire ci- 
joint, de ne pas exiger le certificat consu- 
laire du connaissement. 

IV. Recommander I'emploi de la fac- 
ture consulaire ci-jointe. Celle-ci aura 
au dos uniquement les rubriques desti- 
nees aux declarations du vendeur, fabri- 
cant ou agent, et celle du certificat consu- 
laire, dont la redaction sera faite con- 
formement aux dispositions legales de 
cliaque pays. 



5.° Recommendar aos paizes que adop- 
tarem os modelos de facturas apresenta- 
dos, a nao exigencia do attestado de pro- 
cedencia, cujas indicagoes se acliam no 
referido modelo de factui'a. 

6.° Os direitos consulares devem ser 
moderados e nao constituir um modo indi- 
recto de augmentar as entradas prove- 
nientes dos direitos da alfandega. De- 
clara-se que e conveniente para os in- 
teresses do commercio internacional do 
Continente, que, quanto seja possivel, 
esses direitos se limitem, seja qual for a 
forma adoptada para recebel-os, a cobrir 
as despezas do service consular. 

7.° Recommendar aos Governos dos 
paizes representados n'esta Conferencia 
que d§m aos seus consulados instruc^oes, 
ordenando que mantenham abertas as 
suas repartiyoes, para que sejam visados 
OS documentos consulares, durante as 
mesmas horas em que estejam abertas as 
alfandegas dos paizes em que estiverem 
estabelecidos; e recommendar aos Gover- 
nos que insistam no cumprimento das 
instrucgoes anterior es. 

74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 ^13 



V. Recommander aux pays qui adop- 
tent le modele de factures presente, de ne 
pas exiger le certificat d'origine, dont les 
indications sont contenues dans ledit 
modele de facture. 

VI. Que les droits consulaires doivent 
etre moderes et ne pas constituer une 
source indirecte d' augmentation des droits 
de douane; et il est declare que, dans les 
interets du commerce international du 
Continent, il est necessaire que ces di'oits 
se limitent, autant que possible, quelle 
que soit la forme adoptee pour leur per- 
ception, a couvrir les depenses occasion- 
nees par le service Consulaire. 

VII. Recommander aux Gouverne- 
ments des pays representes a cette Con- 
ference d'envoyer a leurs consulats des 
instructions pour leur ordonner que leurs 
bureaux soient ouverts, pom- le visa des 
documents consulaires, aux memes heuree 
que le bureau des douanes des pays oti ils 
seraient etablis, et recommander aux Gou- 
vernements d'insister pour 1' execution 
des instructions precedentes. 

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Hecho y firmado en la Ciudad de Bue- 
nos Aires d los veinte dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en espa- 
fiol, ingles, portugues y frances y deposi- 
tado en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exte- 
riores de la Republica Argentina a fin de 
que se saquen copias certificadas para envi- 
arlas, por la via diplomdtica, a cada uno 
de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Cro-wder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — 
Joaquim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Rep-Ablica de Chile. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran 
Mathieu. 

Por la Repllblica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Raafel Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo 
de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbon ell. 

Por la Repllblica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Por la Rep-Ablica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alverez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Rob- 
erto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Por la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Por la Repllblica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Por la Republica del Peru. — Eugenio 
Larrabm-e y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderdn, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Por la Republica de El Salvador . — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and filed in the Ministry of For- 
eign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in 
order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the Signatory 
Nations through appropriate diplomatic 
channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nix- 
on, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo 

de Queseda Arostegui Antonio Gon- 
zalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — ^Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga 
For the United Mexican States. — Victoriano 

Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

For the -Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 199 



Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos: 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, era hespanhol, jior- 
tuguez, inglez e fraiicez, e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Relayoes Exteriores da Re- 
publica Argentina, para que pe tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estado pignatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis Nix- 
on, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Bterculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Anclzar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis Tole- 
do Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin Fou- 

chard . 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga.. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 

riano Salado Ah-arez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenie Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — i\Ian- 
iiel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Fait et sign^ a Buenos-Aires, k- vingti- 
eme jour du mois d' Aodt mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, en anglais, en i^ortugais 
et en fran(^ais, et depose au Minist^re des 
Affaires Etrangeres de la Republique 
Argentine, pour qu'il en soit fait des 
copies authentiquees qui seront envoyees, 
par la voie diplom.atique, a charun des 
Etats signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Am^rique. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis Nix- 
on, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
DaA'id Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
bailos. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Mm'tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Anclzar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Alfre- 
do Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d^ Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdla, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teodo- 
sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenie 
LaiTabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de I' Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-JJnis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX V (2) 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 

Reglamentadon aduanera 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respec- 
tivos Gobiernos, han aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

I — Que en el caso de haber sido desem- 
barcados en determinado puerto, bultos 
destinados a otro puerto, ya sea nacional 
6 extranjero, se permita reembarcar sin 
multa alguna los referidos bultos, siempre 
que se demostrare de una manera feha- 
ciente que era otro su destino verdadero. 



RESOLUTION 

Customs regulations 

The imdersigned, Delegates of the 
Republics represented at the Fovu-th 
International American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
resolution : 

The Foiu:th International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

I. That when packages are landed in 
a given port, which were destined for 
another, whether domestic or foreign, 
said packages may be reloaded without 
the imposition of any fine, provided that 
it shall be conclusively proved that their 
real destination was elsewhere. 



II — Que para facilitar el pronto de- 
spacho de buques se expidan instruc- 
ciones facultando a los recaudadores de 
Aduanas para autorizar con anticipacion 
de la llegada del buque, a peticion de los 
interesados, y en conformidad a los 
I'eglamentos respectivos, la preparacion 
de cargamentos de embarque. 

Ill — Que los respectivos Gobiernos 
establezcan reglamentos: 1°. Permiti en- 
do las operaciones de embarque y desem- 
barque de mercaderias en las horas de la 
noche, en todos aquellos casos en que sean 
admisibles a juicio de las autoridades 
correspondientes, y 2°. autorizando las 
mismas operaciones y las operaciones 
simultaneas de embarque y desembarque 
en el mismo buque, en los dias feriados 
incluso los domingos, pero con exclusi6n 
de los dias fiestas nacionales. 

IV — Que se otorguen facilidades para el 
transito de mercaderias de comercio inter- 
nacional por el territorio de los diferentes 
parses, simplificando hasta donde sea posi- 
ble la documentacion requerida para esta 
operacion, sin perjuicio de todas las me- 
didas necesarias para prevenir el fraude. 

Que las mercaderias en trdnsito por las 
vias de comunicacion de un pals cual- 

200 



II. In order to facilitate the prompt 
despatch of vessels, that instructions be 
issued to collectors of customs to author- 
ize, on request of the interested parties, 
the preparation of outward cargoes in 
advance of the arrival of the vessel, sub- 
ject to necessary customs regulations. 

III. That regulations be issued by the 
several Governments to permit the load- 
ing and unloading of merchandise in the 
night, in such cases as conditions may 
permit and in the discretion of the proper 
authorities; the loading and unloading 
of vessels on holidays and Sundays in- 
cluded, except national holidays, and the 
simultaneous loading and unloading of 
cargoes on and from the same vessel. 



IV. That facilities be given to inter- 
national traffic of foreign merchandise 
through different countries, simplifying as 
much as possible the (customs) documenta- 
tion that is necessary for such operation, 
taking at the same time all necessary pre- 
cautions to prevent fraud. It is recom- 
mended that merchandise in transit over 
the ways of communication of any coun- 
try, shall not be subject to charge, only 



APPENDIX V (2) 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUfAO 

Regulame7itagao aduaneira 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus Governos, 
appro varam a seguinte Resolufao: 

A Quarta Confer encia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve : 

I. Que no caso de terem sido desem- 
barcados em determinado porto volumes 
deetinados a outro, seja nacional ou 
extrangeii'o, seja permittido reembarcar, 
sem nenhuma multa, os referidos volumes, 
toda a vez que se provar, de maneira 
evidente, que era outro o destine verda- 
deiro. 

II. Que para facilitar o prompto des- 
pacho de navios se dem instrucgoes aos col- 
lectores aduaneiros, para que autorizem, 
antes da chegada do navio, a pedido dos 
interessados e de accordo com os respec- 
tivos regulamentos, a accommoda^ao das 
cargas a embarcar. 

III. Que OS respect! vos Governos esta- 
belegam regulamentos que permittam as 
operagoes de embarque e desembarque 
de mercadorias dmante as horas da noite, 
em todos os casos em que forem admis- 
siveis, a juizo das correspondentes aucto- 
ridades, e que tambem autorizem essas 
operagoes nos dias feriados, inclusive os 
domingos, exceptuadas as festas nacio- 
naes. 



IV. Que se facilite o transito de merca- 
dorias de commercio international pelo 
territorio dos differentes paizes, simplifi- 
cando quanto possivel, a documentagao 
requerida para essa operagao, sem pre- 
juizo de todas as medidas necessarias para 
prevenir fraude. 

Que as mercadorias em transito pelas 
vias de communicagao de qualquer paiz, 



RESOLUTION 

Reglementation de douane 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dix- 
ment autorises par lem's Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuv6 la suivante Reso- 
lution: 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine, reunie a Buenos- 
Aires, resout. 

I. Que dans le cas oil des colis destines 
k un autre port, soit national, soit etran- 
ger, amraient ete debarques dans un port 
determine, il soit permis de reembarquer 
lesdits colis, sans avoir a payer aucune 
amende, pourvu qu'il soit demontre, 
d'une maniere peremptoire, que I'autre 
port etait celui de sa veritable destina- 
tion. 

II. Que dans le but de faciliter la 
prompte expedition des navires, des 
instructions soient adressees aux Re- 
ceveurs des Douanes, pour autoriser, des 
avant I'arrivee du bateau, k la demande 
des interess^s et conformement aux regle- 
ments sur la matiere, la preparation des 
cargaisons d'embarquement. 

III. Que les Gouvernements respectifs 
etablissent des Reglements: 1.° permet- 
tant les operations d'embarquement et 
de debarquement des marchandises aux 
heures de la nuit, dans tons les cas ou la 
chose serait possible, de I'avis des auto- 
rites correspondantes ; et, 2.° autorisant 
les memes operations, et aussi les opera- 
tions simultanees d'embarquement et de 
debarquement pour le meme bateau, les 
jours feries, y compris les dimanches, 
mais exclusion faite des jours de fetes 
Nationales. 

IV. Que Ton accorde des facilites pour 
le transit des marchandises de commerce 
international par le territoire des differ- 
ents paj's, en simplifiant, dans la niesure 
du possible, les documents requis pour 
cette operation; sans prejudice de toutes 
les mesures necessaires poui' prevenir la 
fraude. 

Que les marchandises en transit par les 
voies de communication d'un pays quel- 

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202 FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



quiera no esten sujetas a impuesto, debi- 
endo pagar unicamente los servicios pres- 
tados por las instalaciones adecuadas de 
los puertos 6 de los caminos recorridos, y 
del servicio de vigilancia, en la misma 
escala en que pagan dichos servicios las 
mercaderias destinadas al consumo del 
pals por cuyo suelo se verifica el transito. 
Se entiende que esta liberacion de dere- 
clios solo ser^ procedente en aquellos casos 
en que sea compatible con las circun- 
stancias especiales, los recursos y las con- 
diciones economicas del pais de transito. 

V — Que las administraciones aduaneras 
de los paises americanos, en caso de con- 
sulta y de envio de una muestra de cual- 
quier articulo de importacion, indiquen 
la clasificacion que hubiera recibido en el 
arancel aduanero 6 tarifa de avaluo respec- 
tivo, y los derechos a que en consecuencia 
estuviese sujeto. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, a los veinte dias del mes de Agosto 
de mil novecientos diez, en espaiiol, 
ingles, portugues y frances, y depositado 
en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 
de la Republica Argentina, a fin de que 
se saquen copias certificadas para enviar- 
las, por la via diplomatica. a cada uno 
de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Caiios Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jos6 L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Repxhblica de Costa Rica. — ^Alfredo 
Volio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 



being obliged to pay for the Hervice.s ren- 
dered by the adequate installations of the 
ports or of the roads traversed, and of the 
service of supervision, on the same .scale 
that merchandise pays for said services 
when intended for consumption in the 
country over whose territory the transit 
is made. 

It is understood that this exemption of 
charges is only proper in all such cases in 
which they may be compatible with the 
special circumstances, the resources and 
the economic conditions of the country 
of transit. 

V. It is recommended to the customs 
administrations of the American coun- 
tries to indicate, in case their advice is 
asked and a sample of any article of im- 
portation is sent, the classification which 
it should receive in the customs schedule 
or respective tariff of apraisement, and the 
duties to which it is consequently subject. 

Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and filed in the Ministry of For- 
eign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 
in order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the Signatory 
Nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
\Vhite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 
For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfi-edo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — Am<^rico 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 



FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 203 



nao fiquem sujeitas a imposlo, devendo 
pagar somente os servigos prestados pelas 
installafoes adequadas dos portos ou dos 
caminhos percorridos e do servifo de 
vigilancia na mesma proporgao do que 
pagam por taes servigos as mercadorias 
destinadas ao consume do paiz em cujo 
territorio se effectual- o transito. Fica 
entendido que esta suppressao de direitos 
80 sera admissivel nos cases em que for 
compativel com as circumstancias es- 
peciaes e com os recursos e condifoes 
economicas do paiz de transito. 

V. Recommenda-se as administra^oes 
aduaneiras dos paizes americanos que indi- 
quem, em caso de consulta e de remessa 
de uma amostra de qualquer artigo de 
importagao, a classificafao prescripts na 
pauta aduaneira, ou tarifa da respectiva 
avaliagao, e os direitos a que, por isso, 
fica sujeito. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez e entregue 
ao Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Rejniblica da Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gonzalo 
de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio Gon- 
zalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 



conque ne soient pas assujetties a I'impot, 
mais seulement au paieraent des services 
rendus par les installations ad^quates des 
ports utilises et des chemins parcourus 
et par le service de surveillance, aux 
memes tarifs que ceux qui sont payes jjar 
les marchandises destinees a etre consom- 
mees dans le pays sur le territoire duquel 
s'effectue le transit. II est entendu que 
cette liberation de droit ne sera operante 
que dans les cas ou elle serait compatible 
avec les circonstances speciales, les 
ressources et les conditions (Sconomiques 
du pays de transit. 

V. Que les administrations douanieres 
des pays americains, en cas de demande 
de renseignements et d'envoi d'un echan- 
tillon quelconque d'un article d'impor- 
tation, indiquent la classification qu'il 
aurait re^ue dans le tarif douanier ou 
tarif d'evaluation particuliere, et les 
droits auxc^uels il serait assujetti en con- 
sequence. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le ving- 
tieme jour du mois d'Aout mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, en anglais, en portugais 
et en fran^ais et depose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrangeres, de la Republique 
Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoyees,^ par 
la voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — -Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos, 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, ]\Iario 
Estrada. 



204 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For la Rep'&blica de Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Paraguay. — ^Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Republica del Ferii. — Eugenio La- 

rrabure y TJndnue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

der6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de El Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su4rez. 
For la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez Verdia, 

Antonio Pi-amos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Estevd Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

r6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavelle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejla, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — ^Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOUKTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



205 



Pela Republica de Haiti. — Oonstantin 
Fouchard. 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Ro- 
berto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzdlez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 
der6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — ^Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique d' Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mcxicains. — Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdfa, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel P^rez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisdrio 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fed- 
erico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Rep'Ablique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Ame- 
zaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, C&ar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX V (3). 



CUARTA CONFEREKCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 



RESOLUTION 



Seccion de comercio, aduanas y estadisticas Section of commerce, customs and statistics 



Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Repiiblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respecti- 
vos Gobiemos, ban aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

I. Encarecer al Consejo Directivo de la 
Union Pan-Americana el establecimiento 
de la seccion de comercio, aduanas y 
estadisticas, recomendada ya por la Con- 
ferencia Internacional de Rio de Janeiro. 
Esta seccion enviara un perito en materias 
aduaneras a los diferentes parses ameri- 
canos con el objeto de reunir las leyes, 
los reglamentos aduaneros y consulares, y 
de publicarlos en una compilacion que 
permita hacer facilmente el estudio com- 
parative de estas disposiciones y que 
pueda servir de libro de consulta al co- 
mercio internacional. 

II. Que el Consejo Directivo de la 
Unidn Pan-Americana envie a los Gobi- 
ernos de las Naciones representadas en 
esta Conferencia, con un afiio de antici- 
pacion a la fecha en que tendra lugar la 
pr6xima, un informe sobre los siguientes 
asuntos: 

1." Derecbos a que esta sujeta la nave- 
gacion en los puertos de los paises ameri- 
canos. 

2.° Documentos que deben acompanar 
a las solicitudes presentadas a las Aduanas 
para el despacho de mercaderias; forma y 
requisites de estas solicitudes y posibilidad 
de adoptar un modelo uniforme. 

3.° Sistemas de avaliio de las merca- 
derias para el pago de los derechos adua- 
neros y la formacion de las estadisticas 
comerciales en America; ventajas e in- 
con venientes de los diferentes sistemas. 

4° Organizacion de las oficinas de 
Aduana y tramitacion del despacho 
aduanero. 

206 



The undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respectiAe Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
Resolution : 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

I. — The Governing Board of the Pan- 
American Union is urged to create the 
section of commerce, customs and statis- 
tics recommended by the International 
Conference of Rio de Janeiro. This sec- 
tion shall send an expert in customs mat- 
ters to the different American countries 
for the purpose of compiling customs and 
consular laws, regulations and practice, 
which compilation shall be published in 
such form as to facilitate a comparative 
study of such matters and serve as a work 
of reference for international commerce. 



II. — The Governing Board of the Pan 
American Union shall send to the nations 
represented in this Conference, one year 
prior to the date of the meeting of the 
next Conference, a report upon the follow- 
ing matters: 

1. Charges to which navigation is sub- 
ject in the ports of the American countries. 

2. Documents which must accompany 
the petitions presented to the custom- 
house for the despatch of merchandise; 
the form and reqmrements of these peti- 
tions and the practicability of adopting a 
form common to all. 

3. A system of appraisement of mer- 
chandise for the payment of customs 
duties, and the publication of the com- 
mercial statistics of America, together 
with the advantages and disadvantages of 
the different systems. 

4. Organization of customs offices and 
procedure in customs administration. 



APPENDIX V (3) 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUfAO 



RESOLUTION 



Sec^odecommerdo,alfandegas e estatisticas Section commerce, doumies et statistiques 



Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus respecti- 
vos Governos, approvaram a seguinte 
Resolugao : 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve : 

I. Recommenda-se ao Gonselho Direc- 
tor da Uniao Pan-Americana que esta- 
belega a Sec^ao de Commercio, Alfandegas 
e Estatisticas ja recommendada pela Con- 
ferencia Internacional do Rio de Janeiro. 
Esta Secfao mandara um perito em ma- 
terias aduaneiras aos differentes paizes 
americanos, com o fim de compilar as 
leis e regulamentos aduaneiros e con- 
sulares, e publical-os, reunidos de modo 
a facilitar o estudo comparativo d'essas 
disposigoes e a servir de livi'o de consulta 
para o commercio internacional. 



II. Que Conselho Director da Uniao 
Pan-Americana remetta aos Governos das 
Na^oes representadas n'esta Conferencia, 
um anno antes da data da proxima Con- 
ferencia, um relatorio sobre os seguintes 
aesumptos : 

!.• Direitoa a que esta sujeita a nave- 
gagao nos portos dos paizes americanos. 

2." Documentor que devem acompan- 
har OS requerimentos apresentados ds 
alfandegas para o despacho de merca- 
dorias; forma e requisitos desses requeri- 
mentos e possibilidade de adoptar um 
modelo uniforme. 

3.° Systemas de avaliagao das merca- 
dorias para o pagamento dos direitos adua- 
neii'os e formagao das estatisticas com- 
merciaes na America; vantagens e incou- 
venientes dos-differentes systemas. 

4.° Organizagao das Secretarias da Al- 
fandega e tramites do despacho aduaneiro. 



Les soussign^s, D^legues des Republi- 
ques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, de- 
ment autoris^s par leurs Gouvemements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution sui- 
vante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine, reunie a Buenos- 
Aires, resout: 

I. Recommander au Conseil Directeur 
de rUnion Pan-Americaine I'etablisse- 
ment de la section de Commerce, Douanes 
et Statistiques deja recommandee par la 
Conference Internationale de Rio de 
Janeiro. 

Cette section enverra un expert en ma- 
tiferes douanieres dans les difterents pays 
americains dans le but de reunir les lois 
et rfeglements douaniers et consulaires, 
et de les publier dans un recueil qui per- 
mettra de faire facilement I'etude con- 
parative de ces dispositions et qui pourra 
servir de Livre de Renseignements au 
commerce international 

II . Que le Conseil Directeur de I'llnion 
Pan-Am6ricaine envoie aux Gouveme- 
ments des Nations representees a cette 
Conference, et ce, une annee avant la date 
a laquelle aura lieu la prochaine, un rap- 
port sur les questions suivantes: 

1.° Droits auxquels est assujettie la 
navigation dans les ports des pays ameri- 
cains; 

2." Documents qui doivent accom- 
pagner les demandes presentees en 
douane pour le retrait des marchandises ; 
forme et formalites de ces demandes et 
possibilite d'adopter un module uniforme. 

3.° Syst^me d'evaluation des marchan- 
dises pour le paiement des droits de 
douane.et i'etablissement des statistiques 
commerciales en Am^rique; avantages et 
inconvenients des differents systemes; 

4.° Organisation des bureaux de Douane 
et fonctionnement du retrait en douane. 



207 



208 FOUETH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



5." Otras medidas cuya adopcion podria 
recomendarse con el objeto de uniformar 
la administracion aduanera y consular de 
las Republicas Americanas. 

III. Recomendar 4 la Oficina de las 
Republicas Americanas la formacion de 
un vocabulario de las diferentes expre- 
siones y sinonimos empleados en los 
paises de America para designar unos 
mismos articulos y productos, con sus 
equivalentes en ingles, frances y portu- 
gues. En esta compilacion se indicaran 
en la forma que la Union Pan- Americana 
estime mas conveniente, los derechos 
aduaneros que graven dichos articulos en 
las diferentes Republicas del Continente 
y la clasificacion que hubieren recibido 
en la tarifa de avaluos. 

Para formar esta compilacion se reco- 
mienda que la Comision Pan-Americana 
de cada Repiiblica, formule y comunique 
a la Union, la lista de los articulos cuya 
designacion en el respectivo pais tuviere 
un significado especial, 6 no fuera de uso 
general en America con la equivalente en 
castellano cuando la hubiere; indican- 
dose, tambien, los demas datos que fuera 
del caso acompaiiar. La seccion de 
aduanas, comercio y estadisticas de la 
Union, coordinara, en vista de estos 
datos, la precitada nomenclatura. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, a los veinte dias del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espanol, ingles, 
portugues y frances, y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Republica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomatica, a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Norgueira, Olavo 
Bilac, Gastao da Ounha, Herculano de 
Fi'eitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — ^Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, BeltrAn 
Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Repibblica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 



5. Such other measures as might be 
proposed for the purpose of rendering 
uniform the customs and consular admin- 
istration of the American Republics. 

IIL — The Pan American Union is 
urged to prepare a nomenclature of the 
different expressions and synonyms em- 
ployed in the countries of America to 
designate the same articles and products, 
with their English, Spanish, French, and 
Portuguese equivalents. In this compi- 
lation there shall be included in the 
manner considered best by the Pan 
American Union the customs duties 
imposed on each article in the different 
Republics of the hemisphere and the 
classification which it may have received 
in the schedule of values. 

In order to prepare this compilation it 
is recommended that the Pan American 
Committee in each Republic should for- 
mulate and communicate to the L^nion 
of the American Republics the list of the 
articles, the designation whereof may 
have in the respective country a special 
signification, or one not in general use in 
America, with the Spanish equivalent, if 
any, including also appropriate data to 
be furnished in each case. The section 
of customs, commerce and statistics of 
the Union shall coordinate from these 
data the above mentioned nomenclature. 
Made and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese and 
French, and filed in the Ministry of For- 
eign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in 
order that, certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the signatory 
nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Norgueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia.— B-oherto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONPERENOE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



209 



5." Outrat? medidas cuja adop^ao se 
possa recommendar, com o fim de uni- 
formizar a administrat^ao aduaneira e con- 
sular das Republicas Americanas. 

III. Recommendar 4 Secretaria das 
Republicas Americanas que forme um 
vocabulario das differentes expressoes e 
synonimos usados nos paizes da America 
para designar os artigos e productos da 
mesma classe, com os sens equivalentes 
em inglez, hespanhol, francez e portu- 
guez. N'essa combinagao se indicarao, 
na forma que a Uniao Pan-Americana 
julgar mais conveniente os direitos adua- 
neiros que pesem sobre taes artigos nas 
differentes Republicas do Continente, e 
a classificafao mencionada na tarifa de 
avaliagoes. 

Para formar esta compiligao, recom- 
menda-se que a Commissao Pan-Ameri- 
cana de cada Republica, formule e com- 
munique a Uniao Americana a lista dos 
artigos cuja designayao no respectivo paiz 
tiver um significado especial ou nao f6r de 
uso geral na America, como equivalente 
em hespanhol, quando o tiver, indicando- 
ae tambem todos os dados cujo forneci- 
mento possa ser util. A Secgao de Com- 
mercio, Atfandega e Estatisticas da Uniao 
coordenara, com estes dados a vista, a 
precitada nomenclatura. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, in- 
glez, portuguez e francez, e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Rela^oes Exteriores da Re- 
publica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brcsil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos^ L. 
Almeida Nogueira. Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio BelloCodecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 

740.34— S. Doc. 744. 61-3 14 



5 . Autres mesures dont I'adoptiou 
pourrait etre recommand6e dans le but 
d'uniformiser 1' ad ministration douani^re 
et consulaire des republiques aniericainea. 

III. Recommander au bureau des Re- 
publiques Americaines la formation d'un 
vocabulaire des differentes expressions et 
synonymes employes dans les pays 
d'Amerique pour designer quelques 
memes articles et produits, avec leurs 
equivalents, en anglais, en frangais, et en 
portugais. Dans ce recueil on indiquera, 
dans la forme que 1' Union Pan-Americaine 
jugera la meilleure, les droits de Douane 
dont les dits articles seront greves dans les 
differentes R,epubliques du Continent, et 
la classification qui leur aurait ete at- 
tribuee dans le tarif des evaluations. 

Pour foi-mer ce recueil il est reconx- 
mande que la Commission Pan-Ameri- 
caine de chaque Republique, formule et 
communique a I'Union la liste des articles 
dunt la designation dans le pays respectif 
aurait une signification speciale, ou ne 
serait pas d'un usage general en Am6rique, 
avec I'equivalent en Espagnol quand il y 
aurait lieu d'y joindre. La section de 
Douanes, Commerce et Statistiques de 
rUnion coordonnera, en vue de ces reu- 
seignements, la nomenclature precitee. 



Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le ving- 
tieme jour du mois d'Aout mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, anglais, portugais et 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des Af- 
faires Etrangeres de la Republique Argen- 
tine, pour qu'il en soit fait des copies au- 
thentiquees qui seront envoyees, par la 
voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats sig- 
nataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
A-^Tiite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pour les E'ats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Mmtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltr4n 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 



210 FOURTH INTERNATIONAIi CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Kepublicu de Cuba. — Carlos Garcfa 

V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la liepiiblica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Por la Bepublica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Ref&blica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Reptlblica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — 

Victoriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Repiiblica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

P^rez Alonso. 
Por la Repvbblica de Panamd.—Belisa,no 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodo- 

sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Reptlblica del Perit. — Eugenio Lar- 

rabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

der6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Republica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la RepiXblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela.- — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Aroslegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luia 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Estava Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru.— Engenio Lar- 
rabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 
deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — • 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 211 



Pela Repuhllca de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jos^ M. Carbonell. 

Pela Eepublica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Re-puhlica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Repuhlica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Repuhlica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pela Repuhlica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do -^lexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Repuhlica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Repuhlica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Repuhlica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Repuhlica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 
deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Repuhlica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pela Repuhlica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos 
Garcia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique JDominicaine.—Auie- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Ha'iti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Poitr la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Theo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX V (4). 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION 

Estadisticas covierdales 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Repiiblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respec- 
tivos Gobiernos, ban aprobado la sig- 
uiente Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

Que se proceda por la seccion de comer- 
cio, aduanas y estadistica dirigida 6 
asesorada por personas de pericia recon- 
ocida en estos asuntos, a realizar los 
siguientes trabajos: 

1.° Compilar y ordenar todos los datos 
y antecedentes que puedan necesitarse 
para el cabal conocimiento y acertado 
estudio de los procedimientos seguidos 
en las Repiiblicas Americanas para la 
formacion de sus estadisticas del comercio 
exterior, asi generates como especiales, 
a saber: las clasificaciones, agrupaciones, 
definiciones y nomenclatiu-a, usadas en 
la mismas; el criterio seguido para la 
fijacion de los valores de las importa- 
ciones y exportaciones, para la deter- 
minacion del pals de origen de las mer- 
caderlas y sus procedencia, y la del des- 
tino de las exportaciones, para las equiva- 
lencias monetarias y cuantos particulares 
puedan conducir al objeto expresado. 

2. Formular, en vista de los datos y 
antecedentes a que se refiere la clausula 
que precede, un informe comparative de 
las Estadisticas de las Repiiblicas Ameri- 
canas, seiialando las principales diver- 
gencias entre los metodos y procedi- 
mientos empleados en las mismas. 

3.° Forumlar un proyecto de bases que 
serd sometido d los respectivos Gobiernos, 
d fin de que las examinen y confieran, en 
su oportunidad, las instrucciones que 
estimen convenientes d sus Delegados en 
la Quinta Conferencia Pan- Americana, 
6 en un Congreso Especial que al efecto 
se reuna, si la Conferencia hubiera de 
a^lazarse, 6 se acordara por el Consejo 
Directive de la Uni6n Pan- Americana 

212 



RESOLUTION 



Commercial statistics 



The undersigned, Delegates of the 
Republics represented in the Fourth In- 
ternational American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following reso- 
lution : 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves: 

That the section of commerce, customs 
and statistics, directed or advised by per- 
sons of recognized skill in such matters, 
shall perform the following duties: 

1. To compile and arrange all the data 
and antecedents needful for a precise 
knowledge and exact study of the proc- 
esses observed in the American Repub- 
lics for the formation of their statistics 
of foreign commerce, both general and 
special, i. e. the classification, grouping, 
definition, and nomenclature used there- 
in, the standard observed in determining 
the value of imports and exports, in fix- 
ing the country of origin of the commodi- 
ties and the places from which they come, 
as well as in ascertaining the destination 
of exports, and in determining monetary 
equivalents and other details that may 
conduce to the objects in question. 



2. To prepare, with the data and ante- 
cedents mentioned in the paragraph pre- 
ceding, a comparative report on the sta- 
tistics of the American Republics, indi- 
cating the chief difficulties existing in 
the methods and processes employed 
therein. 

3. To draw up a program of bases, 
which shall be submitted to the respec- 
tive Governments for their inspection and 
for the purpose of preparing such instruc- 
tions as they may deem proper, which in 
due time may be given to their Delegates 
to the Fifth Pan-American Conference, 
or to a special Congress assembled for that 
object if the Conference were to be post- 
poned, or if the Governing Board of the 



APPENDIX V (4) 



CHART A CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUfAO 

Estatisticas commerciaes 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus respec- 
tivos Governos, appro varam a seguinte 
Resolu^ao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

Que a Sec^ao de Commercio, Alfandegas 
e Estatisticas, diiigida por peritos, trate 
de realizar os seguintes trabalhos: 



1°. Compilagao e coordena^ao de todos 
OS dados e antecedentes que possam ser 
necessarios para o perfeito conhecimento 
e estudo dos processos adoptados pelas 
Republicas Americanas para a formagao 
de estatisticas de commercio exterior, 
tanto geraes como especiaes, a saber: 
classificayoes, agrupamentos, definifoes e 
nomenclatui'as usadas nas mesmas esta- 
tisticas; systema seguido para a deter- 
minagao dos valores das importagoes e 
exporta^oes, e para a designa^ao do paiz 
de origem das mercadorias e procedencias, 
e a do destino das exportayoes para as 
equivalencias monetarias; e tudo quanto 
se referii- ao fim expressado. 



2°. Preparo, com os dados e antece- 
dentes a vista, relativos a clausula prece- 
dente, de um relatorio comparativo das 
estatisticas das Republicas Americanas, 
dando a conhecer as principaes divergen- 
cias entre os methodos e processos usados 
nas mesmas. 

3.° — Preparo de um projecto de bases, 
que sera submettido aos respectivos Gov- 
ernos, com o fim de que estes as exami- 
nem, e dem, opportunamente, instrucfoes 
sobre tal projecto, aos seus delegados a 
Quinta Conferencia Internacional Ameri- 
cana, ou aos de um Congresso Especial que 
para isso se reuna, se a Conferencia tiver 
de ser adiada, ou, ainda, se o Conselho 
Director da Uniao Pan-Americana re- 



RESOLUTION 

Statistiques commerciales 

Les soussi»nes, Delegues des Repu- 
bliques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dfj- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la suivante Reso- 
lution: 

La Quatrieme Conference Internatio- 
nale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout: 

Que la Section de Commerce, Douanea 
et Statistiques, dirigee ou conseillee par 
des personnes de competence reconnue 
dans ces affaires, procede a la realisation 
des travaux suivants: 

1^. Compiler et tenu- a jom* tons les 
renseignements et antecedents qui peu- 
vent etre necessaires pom* la complete con- 
naissance et etude des precedes sui\ds 
dans les Republiques Americaines pour la 
formation de leurs statistiques du com- 
merce exterieur, soit generales, soit 
speciales, a saA^oir: les classifications, 
groupements, definitions et nomencla- 
ture en usage dans les dites Republiques; 
le criterium suivi pour 1' estimation des 
valeiirs des importations et exportations, 
pour la determination du pays d'origine 
des marchandises et leur provenance, et 
celle de la destination des exportations, 
pom" les equivalences monetaii'es, en un 
mot, tons les renseignements qui peuvent 
servii' au but indique. 

2°. Formuler, en vue des informations 
et antecedents dont il est question, un 
rapport comparatif des Statistiques des 
Republiques Americaines, en signalant 
les principales divergences entre les 
methodes et procedes employes dans les 
dites Republiques. 

3.° Formuler un projet de bases qui sera 
soumis aux Gouvernements respectifs, 
afin qu'il soit examine et que ceux-ci, 
donnent, opportunement, les instructions 
qu'ils estimeraient devoir dieter a leurs 
Delegues a la Cinquieme Conference Pan- 
Americaine, ou au Congres Special qui se 
reunirait a cet effet si la Conference devait 
Stre renvoyee, ou s'il etait decide par le 
Conseil Directeur de I'Union Pan-Am6ri- 

213 



214 FOURTH INTBEZSrATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



recomendar la celebraci6n de un Congreso 
Especial, en vista del cardcter t^cnico de 
los asuntos aduaneros y estadisticos, y 
una vez terminados ios estudios e informes 
encomendados a la seccion de comercio, 
aduana y estadlstica. 

El proyecto de bases que deberd 
presentar la seccion de comercio, adu- 
anas y estadlstica, versara sobre las 
eiguientes cuestiones: 

a) Procedimientos uniformes para la 
fijacion de los valores del comercio inter- 
nacional, d fin de que puedan compararse 
eficazmente las estadisticas y servir de 
base d los acuerdos 6 convenciones que 
en materia de comercio 6 de navegacion 
puedan pactar dichos Gobiernos; 

b) Clasificaciones y agrupaciones iden- 
ticas 6 similares de las mercaderias que se 
importen 6 exporten, al mismo objeto que 
en el pdrrafo anterior se indica; 

c) La adopcidn de un mismo criterio 
para la determinacion del origen y 
procedencia de las importaciones y del 
destine de las exportaciones; 

d) Uso de igual nomenclatura comer- 
cial, en cuanto lo permitan la diversidad 
de las lenguas y de las producciones; 

e) La adopcion de acepciones usuales 
id6nticas para los terminos de mds fre- 
cuente aplicaci6n en las estadisticas 
comerciales; 

/) La rigurosa observancia del sistema 
m^trico decimal, 4 fin de conseguir una 
posible uniformidad en todo lo referente 
I pesos y medidas. 

Hecho y firmado en la Ciudad de 
Buenos Aires, 4 los veinte dias del mes 
de Agosto del ano mil novecientos diez, 
en espanol, ingles, portugues y frances, 
y depositado en el Ministerio de Rela- 
ciones Exteriores de la Reptiblica Argen- 
tina, d fin de que se saquen copias certifi- 
cadas para enviarlas, por la via diplo- 
matica, d cada uno de los Estados sig- 
natarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar 0. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 
Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 
Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos^ 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 



Pan-American Union were to recommend 
the summoning of a special Congress in 
view of the technical character of customs 
and statistical matters, when ever the 
investigations and reports entrusted to 
the section of commerce, customs and 
statistics shall have been completed. 

The program of bases to be prepared 
by the section of commerce, customs 
and statistics shall deal with the follow- 
ing questions: 

a) Uniform procedure in determining 
values in international commerce, so as 
to allow statistics to be compared effec- 
tively and serve as a basis for the agree- 
ments or conventions relating to com- 
merce or navigation into which the said 
Governments may enter; 

b) Identical or similar classification or 
grouping of commodities exported or 
imported, with the same object in view 
as that mentioned in the paragraph pre- 
ceding; 

c) Adoption of the same standard for 
determining the places of origin of im- 
ports and destination of exports ; 

d) Employment of the same commer- 
cial nomenclature, so far as the divereity 
in languages and products may permit; 

e) The adoption of identical meanings 
for terms most commonly applied in 
commercial statistics ; 

/) The rigorous observance of the 
decimal metric system, so as to procure 
a possible uniformity in all that relates 
to weights and measures. 

Made and signed in the City of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August, 
in the year one thousand nine hundred 
and ten, in Spanish, English, Portu- 
guese and French, and filed in the Min- 
istry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine 
Republic in order that certified copies 
may be made to be forwarded through 
appropriate diplomatic channels to each 
one of the Signatory Nations. 
For the United States of America. — Hemy 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos^ A. Terrv, Estanislaa 
S. Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastaa 
da Cuhha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — IMiguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 



FOURTH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 215 



Bolvesse recommendar que se celebre um 
Congresso Especial em vista do caracter 
technico dos assumptos aduaneiros e esta- 
tisticos, uma vez terminados os estudos e 
relatorios encommen dados 4 Sec^ao de 
Commercio, Alfandegas e Estatisticas. 

Projecto de bases que deverd apre- 
sentar a Secfao de Commercio, Alfande- 
gas e Estatisticas versara sobre as seguin- 
tes questoes: 

a) Processos uniformea para a determi- 
nafao dos valores do Commercio Interna- 
cional, para que se possam comparar effi- 
cazmente as estatisticas e servir de base 
aos accordos ou conven^oes que, em ma- 
teria de commercio ou de navegafao pos- 
eam combinar os referidos Governos; 

b) Classificagoes e agrupamentos identi- 
cos ou similares das mercadorias, que se' 
importem ou exportem, com o mesmo fim 
indicado no paragrapho anterior; 

c) Adopgao do mesmo s,ystema para a 
determina^ao da origem e procedencia das 
importafoes e de destino das exporta^oes; 

d) Uso de igual nomenclatura commer- 
cial, tanto quanto permitta a diversidade 
das linguas e das produc^oes; 

e) Adop^ao de accepgoes usuaes iden- 
ticas para os termos de mais frequente ap- 
plicagao nas estatisticas commerciaes; 

f) Rigorosa observancia do systema 
metrico decimal, com o fim de conseguir 
a maior uniformidade em tudo o que se 
refere a pesos e medidas. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em bespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Rela^oes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
por via diplomatica, a cada um dos Esta- 
dos signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, DaAdd Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — ^Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Mmtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 



caine de recommander la reunion d'un 
Congrfes special, en vue du caractere tech- 
nique que presentent lea affaires de 
Douanes et de Statistiques, une fois ter- 
minus les Etudes et rapports confi^s k la 
Section Commerce, Douanes et Statis- 
tiques. 

Le Projet de bases que devra presenter 
la Section Commerce, Douanes et Statis- 
tiques embrassera les points suivants: 

_ a) Proc^d^s uniformea pour I'appr^cia- 
tion des valeurs du Commerce Interna- 
tional, afin que puissent #-tre compar^es, 
d'une maniere emcace, lea statiatiques et 
qu'elles puissent servir de base aux 
accords ou conventions, qu'en matifere de 
commerce ou de navigation pourraient 
conclure les dits Gouvernements ; 

b) Classifications et groupements iden- 
tiques ou similaires des marchandises qui 
s'importent ou a'exportent, ceci dana le 
m^me but que celui qui eat indique dans 
le paragraphe precedent. 

c) L' adoption d'un m^me crit^rium 
pour la determination de I'origine et de la 
provenance dea importationa et de la des- 
tination des exportations. 

d) L'usage d'une nomenclature com- 
merciale egale, lorsque le permettrant la 
diversite des langues et dea productions; 

e) L'adoption de termes uauela iden- 
tiques pour les expresaiona qui trouvent 
leur plua frequente application dans les 
statistiques commerciales; 

/) La rigoureuse observation du sys- 
teme metrique decimal, afin d'obtenir une 
possible uniformity en tout ce qui a trait 
aux poida et mesures. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le ving- 
tieme jour du moia d'aoUt mil neuf cent- 
dix, en espagnol, en anglais, en portugaia. 
et en franfaia, et depose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrang^res de la R^publique 
Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoy^es, par la 
voie diplomatique, ^ chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d^Amerique. — Henry- 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montea de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
loa Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos,. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitaa. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Ma- 
thieu. 



216 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala.— Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la RepHblica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Perd. — Eugenio La- 

rrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Repiiblica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la Repiiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela.— 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio La- 

rrabiue y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 217 



Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala.— Luis Toledo 

Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dfa, Antonio Romos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 

Pon'as. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y LTnanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine.^ Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de I'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Hditi. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Larzo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — ^j\Ian- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teodo- 
sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Feder- 
ico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez., 

Peur la Republique de I' Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX V (5) 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 



Censos 



RESOLUTION 



Census 



Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Repiiblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Tnternacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por siis respecti- 
vos Gobiernos, han aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucidn : 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, re- 
suelve: 

Recomendar a los Gobiernos de los Es- 
tados Americanos: 

J.° El levantamiento decenal del censo 
de su poblacion, teniendo en cuenta los 
adelantos de la ciencia y de los procedi- 
mientos tecnicos. 

2°. Que se prdceda i, le van tar un censo 
de poblacion en todos los Estados Ameri- 
canos en el ano de 1920, y si fuere posible, 
en un mismo mes, recomendado de ante 
mano por la Union Pan-Americana en 
Washington. 

3.° Recomendar tambi^n & los palses de 
la Union Pan-Americana, que para la 
fecha indicada, se proceda a la formacidn 
de un censo general industrial y de los 
otros censos que la ciencia y la prdctica 
aconsejen. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires d los veinte dias del mes de Agosto 
de mdl novecientos diez, en espanol, 
ingles, portugues, y frances y depositado 
en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 
de la Repiiblica Argentina, a fin de que 
se saquen copias certificadas para en- 
viarlas, por la via diplomdtica, a cada uno 
de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados TJnidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, 
Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, 
Paul S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

218 



The undersigned. Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented in the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following Res- 
olution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves: 

To recommend to the Governments of 
the American States: 

.1. The taking of a decennial census of 
their population, taking into account the 
advance of science and technical pro- 
cedure. 

2. That steps be taken to effect a popu- 
lation census in all the American States 
in the year 1920, and, if possible, in the 
same month, to be recommended before- 
hand by the Pan American Union at 
Washington. 

3. It is also recommended to the coun- 
tries of the Pan American Union that, on 
the date suggested, steps be taken to 
effect a general industrial census and such 
other censuses as science and practice 
counsel . 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the twentieth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each one of the Signa- 
tory Nations through the appropriate 
diplomatic channels. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
■\Miite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 



APPENDIX V (5; 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



KESOLUfAO 

» 

Becenseamento 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus respecti- 
vos Governos, approvaram a seguinte 
Resolu^ao: 

A Quarta Gonferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

Recommendar aos Governos dos Esta- 
dos Americanos: 

!.• O levantamento, por decennios, do 
recenseamento da populagao, tendo em 
vista OS progressos scientificos e os pro- 
cesssos technicos. 

2.® Que se effectue o recenseamento 
da populagao em todos os Estados Ameri- 
canos em 1920, e se for possivel, em um 
mesmo mez, previamente indicado pela 
Uniao Pan-Americana em Washington. 

3.' Recommendar aos paizes da Uniao 
Pan-Americana que, para a mesma data, 
se effectue um recenseamento industrial 
geral, e outros que aconselhem a sciencia 
e a practica. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos vinte dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue 
ao Ministerio das Relayoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America.— B-eiixj 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinach, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — ^Antonio Ber- 
m^ejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 



KESOLUTION 

Recensements 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Repu- 
bliques representees k la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, du- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
sui vante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Internatio- 
nale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout: 

, Recommander aux Gouvernements des 
Etats Americains: 

1 . ° D ' eff ectuer le recensement decennal 
de leur population, en ayant soin de tenir 
compte des progres de la science et des 
procedes techniques. 

2.° De proceder au recensement de la 
population dans tons les Etats d' Amerique 
en 1920, et autant que possible, dans le 
m§me mois, mois qui sera recommande 
d'avance par I'llnion Pan-Americaine 
a Washington. 

3.° Recommander egalernent aux pays 
de rUnion Pan-Americaine de proceder, 
a la dateindiquee, aun recensement gene- 
ral industriel et aux autres recensements 
que la science et la pratique indiqueront. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le vingti- 
eme jom- du mois d'aout mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, anglais, portugais et 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des 
Affaires Etrangeres de la Republique 
Argentine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentiquees qui seront envoyees,^ par 
la voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats- Unis d' Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

219 



220 FOURTH INTERiSI'ATIOiSrAL. COXFEEEISrCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For los Estndos Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

For la Repiiblic de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Betrdn Mathieu. 

For la Republic de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For la Republic de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 
For la Republica Domvnicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
JPor la Repiiblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
For la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Repllblica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
For la RepiJiblica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Republica del Peru. — Eugenio 

Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For la Republica de El Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
For la RepiJiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C6sar Zumeta. 



For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquira 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

For the Republic of Chili.- — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa iJica.— Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Ardstegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

JjUgO. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti-. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — liuis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States . — Victoriano 

Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

der6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTEEJSTATIOJSTAL CONFEEENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



221 



Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaciuim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Repuhlica do Chile. — Miguel Cruch- 
aga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Repuhlica da Colornbia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Repuhlica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Velio. 

Pela Repuhlica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Repuhlica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Repuhlica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

Pela Repuhlica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Repuhlica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pela Repuhlica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
torian© Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Repuhlica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Repuhlica .do Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Repuhlica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Repuhlica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
r6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Repuhlica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su4rez. 

Pela Repuhlica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela.- — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour les Etats Unis du Brcsil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Colomhie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fi'edo Volio. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Repuhlique Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Repuhlique de I'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Repuhlique d'HaUi. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Repuhlique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Panama. — Beli- 
sario Porras. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y TJnanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su6rez. 

Pour la Repuhlique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto^ 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX W. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA, 



RESOLUCION 



Policia sanitaria 



Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respecti- 
vos Gobiernos, han aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve : 

I. Recomendar a los Gobiernos que no 
lo han hecho, que adopten la Convencion 
Sanitaria Internacional de Washington. 

II. Recomendar asimismo que adopten 
las Recomendaciones de la Tercera y 
Cuarta Conferencias Sanitarias. 

III. Redactar el Articulo IX de la Con- 
vencion de Washington asl: 

"Para que una circunscripcion no se 
considere ya como contaminada, se 
necesita la comprobacion oficial satisfac- 
toria para ambas partes inter esadas: 

1°.) de que no ha habido defunciones ni 
casos nuevos de peste 6 colera desde hace 
cinco dias, sea despues del aislamiento, 
sea despues de la muerte 6 curacion del 
tiltimo pestoso 6 colerico; en los casos de 
fiebre amarilla, el periodo serd de diez y 
ocho dias ; pero los Gobiernos se reservan el 
derecho de prolongar este periodo contra 
aquellos paises donde no se observan las 
medidas de aislamento y desinfeccion y 
destruccion de mosquitos; 2°.) que todas 
las medidas de desinfeccion han sido 
aplicadas y si se trata de los casos de peste, 
que se han ejucutado las medidas contra 
las ratas, y en el caso de fiebre amarilla, 
se han ejecutado las medidas contra los 
mosquitos." 

IV. Encarecer a todas las Republicas 
que se hagan representar en la proxima 
Conferencia Sanitaria que se celebrara en 
Santiago de Chile. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires d los diez y ocho dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en espa- 
nol, ingles, portugues, y francos y depo- 

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RESOLUTION 

Sanitary police 

The undersigned, Delegates of the 
Republics represented in the Fourth 
International American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

I. — To recommend to the Governments 
which have not yet adopted the Interna- 
tional Sanitary Convention of Washing- 
ton, the adoption of the same. 

II. — To recommend likewise the adop- 
tion of the recommendations of the Third 
and Fourth Sanitary Conferences. 

Ill . — To word Art. IX of the Convention 
of Washington as follows : 

"In order that a locality be considered 
free of contagion it will be necessary to 
furnish official proof satisfactory to both 
parties interested: 

First: That there have been no deaths 
nor new cases of plague or cholera for five 
days after the isolation, death, or dis- 
charge of the last case of plague or cholera; 
in the case of yellow fever the period shall 
be eighteen days, but each Government 
reserves the right to prolong this period 
against those countries where the meas- 
ures for the isolation of cases, the destruc- 
tion of mosquitoes, and the disinfection 
of foci, are not observed. 

Second: That all measures of disinfec- 
tion have been applied, and that in treat- 
ing plague cases, there have been carried 
out all measures for the destruction of rats : 
and that in case of yellow fever the proper 
measures have been taken against mos- 
quitoes." 

IV. — To recommend earnestly that all 
the Republics participate in the next 
Sanitary Conference, which is to be held 
in Santiago, Chili. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the eighteenth day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 



APPENDIX W. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTEBNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLXJfAO 

Policia sanitaria 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus respec- 
tivos Governos, appro varam a seguinte 
Resolufao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

I. Recommendar aos Governos, que 
ainda nao tiverem feito, que adoptem a 
Convegao Sanitaria Internacional de 
Washington. 

II. Recommendar que adoptem tam- 
ben as recommendafoes da Terceira e 
Quarta Conferencias Sanitarias. 

III. Redigir o Artigo IX da Conven^ao 
de Washington do seguinte modo: 

"Para que nao se considere uma cir- 
cumscrip^ao como ja contaminada, e 
necessaria a comprovagao official satis- 
factoria para as duas partes interessadas : 

1.°) de que nao houve fallecimentos 
nem casos novos de peste ou cholera desde 
cinco dias antes, quer seja depois do isola- 
mento, quer depois da morte ou cura do 
ultimo doente de peste ou de cholera; nos 
casos de febre amarella, o periodo sera de 
dezoito dias, mas os Governos reservam-se 
direito de prolongar esse periodo contra 
OS paizes em que nao se observam as 
medidas do isolamento, desinfecgao e 
destruipao dos mosquitos; 2.°) que todas 
as medidas de desinfecfao foram appli- 
cadas e, se se tratar de casos de peste, 
que se puzeram em pratica as medidas 
contra os rates, e em caso de febre amar- 
ella, que se puzeram em pratica as medidas 
contra os mosquitos." 

IV. Pedir a todas as Republicas que 
concorram a proxima Conferencia Sani- 
taria que se reunira em Santiago do Chile. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires,_ aos dezoito dias do mez de Agosto 
de mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue ao 



RESOLUTION 



Police sanitaire 



Les soussignes, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dfi- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approve la Resolution 
sui vante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Americaine, reunie k Buenos- 
Aires, resout: 

I. Recommander aux Gouvernements, 
qui ne I'ont pas encore fait, d'adopter la 
Convention Sanitaire Internationale de 
Washington. 

II. Recommander aussi que soient 
adoptees les recommendations de la 
Troisieme et de la Quatrieme Conferences 
Sanitaires. 

III. Rediger, comme suit, Particle IX 
de la Convention de Washington: 

"Poiu" qu'une circonscription cesse 
d'etre consideree comme contamin^e, il 
faut la preuve officielle, satisfactoire pour 
les deux parties interessees: 

1") qu'il n'y a eu ni deces ni cas nou- 
veau de peste ou de cholera depuis cinq 
jours, soit apres I'isolement soit apres la 
mort ou la guerison de la derniere per- 
sonne atteinte de la peste ou du cholera; 
pour les cas de fievi'e jaune, la periode 
sera de dix-huit jours ; mais les Gouverne- 
ments se reservent le droit de prolonger 
cette periode centre les pays oil Ton 
n'observe pas les mesiu-es d'isolement, 
de desinfection et de destruction des 
moustiques; 2°) que tous les moyens de 
desinfection ont ete appliques, et s'il 
s'agit des cas de peste, que Ton a execute 
les mesm'es centre les rats, et dans le cas de 
fievre jaune, qu'on a execute les mesures 
contre les moustiques." 

IV. Recommander d'une mani^re spe- 
ciale a toutes les Republiques de prendre 
part a la prochaine Conference Sanitaire 
qui se tiendra a Santiago du Chili. 

Fait et signe a Buenos- Aires, le dix-hui- 
tieme jour du mois d'aout mil neuf cent 
dix, en espagnol, anglais, portugais et 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des Af- 

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224 FOURTH Il^TERNATIONAli OONFEBENCE OF AMEEICAJST STATES. 



sitado en el Ministerio de Relaciones Ex- 
teriores de la Republica Argentina, a fin 
de C}ue se saquen copias certificadas para 
enviarlas, por la via diplomatica, a cada 
uno de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, Da\ad Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — 
Joaquim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Torcornal Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Anclzar. 

Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
■ Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Republica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peru. — Eugenic Lar- 

rabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Por la Republica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, 
in order that certified copies be made for 
transmission to each one of the Signatory 
Nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
WTiite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Mosee, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio de Gama, Jose L, 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Ma- 
thieu. 
For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo. Maiio 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Lius Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — ^J^Ianuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 

PoiTas. 
For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Lar- 

rabm'e y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suai'ez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramii-ez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M, Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez. Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 



225 



Ministerio das Relafoes Exterioresda Re- 
publica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela Aaa diplomatica, a cada urn dos Es- 
tados signatarios. 

PelosEstados Unides da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett ^foore. Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
niejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel (^ru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Anciz r. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 

Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, 

Antonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Car- 

bonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada . 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenic Lar- 

rabue y Unanue, Carlos Ah-arez Cal- 

deron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay.. — Gonzalo 
Piamirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Am^zaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 

74034— S. Doc. 744, Gl-3 lo 



faires Etrang6res de la Republique Argen- 
tine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies 
authentic[uees qui seront envoyees,, par 
la voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour la Republique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Co- 
decido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — Ro- 
berto Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — ^Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, 
Antonio Gonzalo P^rez, Jose M. Car- 
bonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — 
Americo Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de L'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Aroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'' Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Jjuia 
Lazo Aria^a. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua.— Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Beli- 
sdrio Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — 
Federico Mejia, Francisco Martinez 
Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de z'Uruguay. — 
Gonzalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, 
Antonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 
Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats - Unis de Venezuela — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Ce^ar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX X . 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 

Intercambio de profesores y alumnos 

Los que susciiben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debldamente autorizados por sus respecti- 
vos Gobiernos, han aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion : 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuel ve : 

I. — Recomendar a los Gobiernos de 
America, por lo que respecta a las Univer- 
feidades que de ellos dependan, y a las 
Universidades que son reconocidas por 
esos Gobiernos, que establezcan intercam- 
bio de profesores sobre las siguientes 
bases: 

1.°) Las Universidades antes indicadas 
acordaran facilidades para que los pro- 
fesores que envien unas d. otras, den en 
ellas cursos 6 conferencias. 

2.°) Los cursos 6 conferencias versaran 
principalmente, sobre materias cientifi- 
cas de interes americano, 6 que se rela- 
eionen con las condiciones de uno 6 algu- 
nos de los paises de America, especialmente 
de aquel en donde ensena el profesor. 

3.") Todos los anos las Universidades 
comunicaran a aquellas con las cuales 
deseen entrar en intercambio, las materias 
que pueden ensenar sus profesores y las 
que desearian fuesen tratadas en sus 
aulas. 

4.0) La remuneracidn del profesor sera 
eosteada por la Universidad que lo ha de- 
signado, k menos que sus servicios hayan 
sido solicitados expresamente, en cuyo 
caso la remuneraci6n ser4 a cargo de la 
Universidad invitante. 

5.") Las Universidades, de sus propios 
fondos, si los tuvieren, 6 solicitdndolos de 
los respectivos Gobiernos, fijaran anual- 
mente las cantidades destinadas a los 
gastos que demande el cumplimiento de 
la presente Resolucion: 

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RESOLUTION 

Interchange of professors and students 

The undersigned. Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented at the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly 
authorized by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves: 

I. — To recommend to the Governments 
of America in regard to their public Uni- 
versities and to the Universities recog- 
nized by those Governments, that they 
establish the interchange of professors on 
the following principles: 

First: — The above mentioned Universi- 
ties shall grant facilities for professors sent 
from one to another for the holding of 
classes or giving lectures. 

Second: — Such classes or lectures shall 
treat chiefly of scientific matters of inter- 
est to America, or relating to the condi- 
tions of one or more of the American 
countries, especially that in which the 
professor is teaching. 

Third:— Every year the Universities 
desiring the interchange shall give notice 
to each other of the matters of which then- 
professors can treat and of those which 
they desire to be treated of respectively 
in their classes. 

Fourth: — The remuneration of a pro- 
fessor shall be paid by the University 
which has appointed him, unless his 
services shall have been expressly re- 
quested, in which case his remuneration 
shall be charged to the University which 
has engaged his services. 

Fifth: The Universities shall deter- 
mine annually the amount, to be taken 
from their own funds, should they have 
any, or to be asked from their respective 
Governments, for the costs incurred in ful- 
filment of the terms of this Resolution. 



APPENDIX X. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUfAO 

Permuta de professores e alumnos 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta 
Conferencia Intemacional Americana, 
devidamente autorizados pelos seus re- 
spectivos Govemos, approvaram a se- 
guirrte Resolufao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Intemacional 
Americana, rennida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

I. — Recommendar aos Govemos da 
America, quanto as universidades que 
d'elles dependem e as universidades 
reconhecidas como taes por esses Gover- 
nos, que estabelefam a permuta dos pro- 
fessores, sobre as seguintes bases: 

1.) As universidades indicadas con- 
cederao facilidades para que os professores, 
enviados de umas as outras, n'ellas 
leccionem ou dem conferencias. 

2.) Os cursos ou conferencias versarao 
principalmente sobre materias scientificas 
de interesse americano ou que se rela- 
cionem com as condigoes de um ou de 
alguns dos paizes da America, especial- 
men te d'aquelle em que o professor 
lecciona. 

3.) Todos OS annos as universidades 
communicarao aquellas. com as quaes 
desejarem permutar, as materias que os 
seus professores podem ensinar e as que 
desejarem que sejam tratadas nas suas 
aulas. 

4.) A remuneragao do professor sera 
custeada pela universidade que o no- 
meou, a nao ser que os seus servigos 
tenham sido solicitados expressamente ; 
n'esse caso a remunera^ao sera por conta 
da universidade que o chamou. 

5.) As universidades, dos seus proprios 
recursos, se os tiverem, ou dos que re- 
queiram dos respectivos Govemos, mar- 
carao annualmente as quantias destina- 
das as despezas que demande o cumpri- 
mento da presente resolu^ao. 



RESOLUTION 

Echange de professeurs et d'ellves 

Les soussignes, D^legues des R6pub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Am^ricaine, dd- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernementa 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Internatio- 
nale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout: 

1. — Recommend er aux Gouvernements 
d'Amerique, en ce qui a trait aux Uni- 
versites qui dependent d'eux, et aux 
Universites qui sont reconnues par ces 
Gouvernements, d'etablir I'echange de 
professeurs sur les bases suivantes : 

1.° Les Universites ci-dessus indiqueea 
accorderont des facilites pour que lea 
professeurs qui s'envoient de I'une a 
I'autre, y donnent des cours et des con- 
ferences. 

2° Les cours ou conferences se rapporte- 
rout principalement a des matieres scien- 
tifiques d'interet americain, ou concer- 
nant Fun ou plusieurs des pays d'Ame- 
rique, specialemciit celui auquel appar- 
tient le conferencier. 

3.° Toutes les annees les Universites 
communiqueront, a celles avec lesquelles 
ellesdesirententrerenrelationsd'echange, 
les matieres que peuvent enseigner leurs 
professetu-s et celles qu'elles desireraient 
voir traitees dans leurs chaires. 

4.° La remuneration du professeur sera 
a la charge de I'Universite qui I'aura 
designe, a moins que ses services aient ete 
sollicites expressement; dans ce cas la 
remuneration sera a la charge de I'Uni- 
versite qui aura fait rinvitation. 

5.° Les Universites, par leurs propres 
fonds, si elles en ont, ou en les sollicitant 
des Gouvernements respectifs, fixeront 
annuellement les sommes destinees a 
couvrir les frais que demandera I'accom- 
plissement de la presente Resolution. 

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228 FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



6.") Serla deseable que las Universi- 
dades de America se reunieran en un Con- 
greso, para procurar la extencion univer- 
Bitaria y los demas medios de cooperacion 
intelectual americana. 

II. — La Cuarta Conferencia Interna- 
cional Americana estima, ademas, que es 
muy util, para robustecer la solidaridad 
entre todos los Estados del Continente, 
que haya intercambio de alumnos entre 
las Universidades Americanas y, al efecto, 
resuelve: 

1.°) Recomendar que las Universidades 
de America creen becas en favor de los 
estudiantes de los otros paises del mismo 
Continente, con 6 sin cargo de reciproci- 
dad, tomando, ya de un modo directo, ya 
por intermedio de los Gobiernos de que 
dependan, las medidas necesarias para 
llevar a la practica este acuerdo. 

2.°) Cada Universidad que baya estab- 
lecido becas debe nombrar una Comision 
encargada de cuidar y atender a los estu- 
diantes pensionados, dirigirlos en sus 
estudios y arbitrar todas las medidas ne- 
cesarias, para que cumplan debidamente 
con sus obligaciones. 

3.°) La Universidad a que se incorpore 
un estudiante extranjero, lo hard inscribir 
en el curso que le corresponda, con arreglo 
al plan de estudios y reglamento respec- 
tivos. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Bue- 
nos Aires, a los diez y ocho dias del mes 
de Agosto de mil novecientos diez en 
espanol, ingles, portugues y frances y 
depositado en el Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de la Repiiblica Argentina, & 
fin de que se saquen copias certificadas 
para enviarlas, por la via diplomatica, a 
cada uno de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowd er, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul 
S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — -Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jos^ L. Alnieida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
ii\.nibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



Sixth: It is to be desired that the Uni- 
versities of America should assemble at a 
Congress to provide for University exten- 
sion and other means of American intel- 
lectual cooperation. 

II. — The Fourth International Amer- 
ican Conference being of the opinion, also, 
that it would be well for the strengthening 
of the solidarity of the nations of the Con- 
tinent that there should be an interchange 
of students between the American Uni- 
versities, resolves: 

1. To recommend that the Universities 
of America should create scholarships in 
favor of students of other countries of this 
same Continent, with or without recipro- 
cal charges, adopting, either directly, or 
through the Government on which they 
are dependent, the necessary measures 
for the practical carrying out of this agree- 
ment. 

2. Each University which shall have 
created such scholarship shall appoint a 
committee to be charged with the care of 
the students to whom such scholarships 
have been given, to direct their studies 
and to lay down the rules necessary to 
secure due performance of their duties. 

3. The Universities so attended by a 
foreign student shall enter him in his cor- 
responding course in conformity with the 
plan of studies and the respective regula- 
tions. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the eighteenth day of August 
in the year one thousand nine hundred 
and ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English 
and French, and deposited in the Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each one of the Signa- 
tory Nations through the appropriate 
diplomatic channels. 
For the United States of America.— Hemy 
White, Enoch H.Crowder, Lewis Nixon, 
John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terrv, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



FOURTH INTERNATIOISrAL, CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 229 



6.) Seria de desejar que as universi- 
dades da America se reunissem n'um 
congresso para conseguir a ampliayao 
universitaria e os outros meios de coope- 
rayao intellectual americana. 

II. — A Quarta Conferencia Interna- 
cional Americana entende que 6 tambem 
muito util, para robustecer a solidarie- 
dade entre todos os Estados do Continente, 
que haja permuta de alumnos entre as 
universidades americanas, e, para isso 
resolve : 

1.) Recommendar que as universidades 
da America creem matriculas gratuitas a 
favor dos estudantes dos outros paizes do 
mesmo Continente, com ou sem obriga^ao 
de reciprocidade, tomando, quer directa- 
mente, quer por intermedio dos Governos 
de que dependerem, as medidas neces- 
sarias para por em pratica esta resolugao. 

2.) Cada universidade que tiver esta- 
belecido matriculas gratuitas deve no- 
mear uma commissao incumbida de 
cuidar e attender a esses estudantes, 
dirigil-os em seus estudos e arbitrar todas 
as medidas necessarias para que cumpram 
devidamente as suas obrigagoes. 

3.) A universidade 4 qual se incorpore 
um estudante extrangeiro, fara inscrevel-o 
no curso que Ihe corresponda, com 
sujeigao ao programma de estudos e ao 
regulamento respectivos. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos dezoito dias do mez de Agosto 
de mil novecentos edez, emhespanhol,in- 
glez, portuguez e francez, e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Rela^oes Exteriores da Re- 
publica Argentina, para que se tirem co- 
pias autbenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos Esta- 
dos signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tSo da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 



6.° II serait desirable que les Univer- 
sit^s d'Am^rique se reunissent en un 
CongT^s pour r^aliser 1' existence universi- 
taire ainsi que les differents moyens de 
cooperation intellectuelle am^ricaine. 

II. — La Quatrifeme Conference Interna- 
tionale Am^ricaine estime, de plus, qu'il 
est trfes utile, ,pour fortifier la solidarity 
entre tous les Etats du Continent, qu'il se 
produise un echange d'elfeves entre les 
Universit^s Am^ricaines, et h, cet effet 
r^sout: 

1°. Recommander que les Universites 
d'Amerique cr^ent des Bourses en faveur 
des etudiants des autres pays du meme 
Continent, avec ou sans charge de r6ci- 
procite, en prenant, d'une maniere di- 
recte, soit par I'intermediaire des Gou- 
vernements dont elles dependent, les 
mesures n^cessaires pour rendre effectif 
cet accord. 

2°. Chaque Universite qui aurait con- 
stitue des Bourses devra nommer une 
Commission chargee de veiller sur les Etu- 
diants pensionn^s, de diriger leurs etudes, 
et de prendre toutes les mesures n^ces- 
saires pour qu'ils accomplissent dument 
leurs obligations. 

3°. L 'University a laquelle s 'incorpore 
un^tudiant etranger, lefera inscrire dang 
le cours qui lui correspond, d 'accord avec 
leplan d'etudes et le reglement respectif. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le dix- 
huitieme jour du mois d'aout mil neuf 
cent dix, en espagnol, anglais, portugaiset 
frangais, et depose au Ministfere des Af- 
faires Etrangeres de la Republique Argen- 
tine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies au- 
thentiquees qui seront envoyees, par la 
voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Pour les ikats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Miu-tinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

Pour La Republique 'du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Ripubliqtce de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 



230 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Repilblica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 
Por la Rep'Ablica Dominicana. — Am^rico 

Lugo. 
Por la RepAblica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.—Yic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Rep'Ablica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Repiiblica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzdlez, Jos^ P. Montero. 
Por la Reptlblica del Peru. — Eugenio Lar- 

rabure y Undnue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

r6n, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For la Rep'dblica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejfa, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For la Repjiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Cuba. — (.'arlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 
dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Estevd Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 231 



Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^p, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo P6rez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana . — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 
bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 
r6n, Jos6 Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Ma- 
nuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos 
Garcia V^lez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, An- 
tonio Gonzalo Perez, Jos6 M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique I/ominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de L'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cdrdenas. 

Pour la Republique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pvur la Republique d' Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats- Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Ma- 
nuel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Beli- 
sdrio Porras. * 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jos6 P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador.— Fe- 
derico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Su- 
Arez. 

Pour la Republique de i,' Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Ame- 
zaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Ma- 
nuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX Y. 



CHART A CONFERENCIA INTERN ACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUCION 

Congreso cieniifico internacional reunido en 
Santiago de Chile. 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus respec- 
tivos Gobiernos, ban aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Guarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

1.° — La Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia 
oficiar^ al Gobierno de la Repiiblica de 
Chile, haciendole conocer que se ha visto 
con singular agrado en todas las Repub- 
licas Americanas, la iniciativa para la 
reunion de un Congreso Cientifico en la 
ciudad de Santiago de Chile y los resulta- 
dos obtenidos por este. 

2.° — Hagase saber a los Gobiernos 
representados que la Conferencia consid- 
eraria oportuna la celebracion de re- 
uniones semejantes a la que alude la pro- 
posicion anterior, en las ciudades de 
America que se tuviera a bien escoger. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de 
Buenos Aires a los cuatro dias del mes de 
Agosto de mil novecientos diez en espaiiol, 
ingles, portugues, y francos y depositado 
en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 
de la Repiiblica Argentina, a fin de que 
se saquen copias certificadas para enviar- 
las, por la via diplomatica, a cada uno de 
los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Orowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar 0. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina.— Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Ounha. 

232 



RESOLUTION 

International scientific congress held in 
Santiago de Chile. 

The undersigned, Delegates of the 
Republics represented at the Fourth 
International American Conference duly 
authorised by their respective Govern- 
ments, have approved the following 
Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves: 

1st. That the Executive of the Confer- 
ence should address the Government of 
Chili, informing it that the Republics 
have noted with pleasiure, the initiative 
of having assembled in the City of Santiago 
of Chili, a Scientific Congress, and the 
results thereat obtained. 



2nd . That the Governments represented 
should be informed that the Conference 
would consider convenient the meeting 
of such assemblies referred to in article 
1st., to be held in the American cities here 
after to be designated. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the fourth day of August in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
m English, Spanish, Portuguese and 
French, and filed in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic 
in order that certified copies be made 
transmission to each one of the signatory 
nations through the appropriate diplo- 
matic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 



APPENDIX Y. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLUfAO 

Congresso scientifico internacional reunido 
em Santiago de Chile. 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados a 
Quarta Conferencia Internacional Amer- 
icana, devidamente autorizados pelos 
sens respectivos Governos, approvaram a 
seguinte Resolugao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve: 

1.° Que a Mesa Directiva da Confer- 
encia officie ao Governo do Chile, fazendo- 
Ihe saber que foi com especial agrado 
conhecida em todas as Republicas Amer- 
icanas a iniciativa para a reuniao de um 
Congresso Scientifico, na cidade de San- 
tiago de Chile, e os resultados nolle 
obtidos. 

2° Que se fafa saber aos Governos 
representados que a Conferencia consid- 
eraria opportuna a celebra^ao de reu- 
nioes, semelhantes a que se refere a pro- 
posta anterior, nas cidades da America 
que se tiver por bem escolher. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires aos quatro dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue 
ao Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America.- — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gas- 
tao da Cunha. 



RESOLUTION 

Congrls scientifique international reunit 
a Santiago du Chili 

Les soussignes, Delegues a la Quat- 
rieme Conference Internationale Am^r- 
icaine et dilment autorises par leura 
Gouvernements respectifs, ont approuve 
la Resolution suivante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Internation- 
ale Americaine, reunie a Buenos-Aires, 
resout: 

1.° Que le Bureau Directeur de la Con- 
ference envoie une comunication au 
Gouvernement du Chili, lui faisant con- 
naitre que c'est avec plaisir que i'on a vu 
dans toutes les Republiques Americaines 
I'initiative prise pour la reunion d'un 
Congres Scientifique a Santiago du Chili, 
ainsi que les . resultats qui y ont ete 
obtenus. 

2." Qu'il soit communique aux Gouver- 
nements representes a la Conference que 
celle-ci considererait opportune la cele- 
bration de reunions semblables a celle a 
laquelle fait allusion le paragraphe pre- 
cedent, dans les ViUes d'Amerique que 
Ton voudrait bien designer. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires le quatri- 
eme jour du mois d'aout mil neuf 
cent dix, en espagnol, en anglais, en 
portugais et en frangais, et depose au 
Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres de la 
Republique Argentine, afin qu'il en soit 
fait des copies authentiquees qui seront 
envoy ees, par voie diplomatique, a 
chacun des Etats signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis D^Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos., 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

233 



234 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES.- 



Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Por la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Velio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 
CArdenas. 

Por la Repixblica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Por la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Por la Republica de Honduras .—liuis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Ro- 
berto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Por la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Por la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Por la Republica del Paraguay. — ^Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Por la Republica del Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Por la Republica de El Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejla, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Por la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos6 Amezaga. 

Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal ("ruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For thn Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jos^ M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — -Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti.. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United Mexican States. — Victoriano 
Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, An- 
tonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Republic of Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezu£la. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOUfiTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 235 



Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Oruchaga 
Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Anfbal 
Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Ro- 
berto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — -Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario Por- 
ras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — -Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jos4 Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejfa, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do V^ruguay. — Gonzalo Ra- 
mirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. 
Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republiqne du Chili.— Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello (Jodecido, 
Anfbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pour la Republiqne de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia V61ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Amer- 
ico Lugo. 

Pour la Republique de I'Equateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Republique de Guatemala. — ^Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Haiti. — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

Pour la Republique de Honduras.— huia 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdfa, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel P^rez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisdrio 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teo- 
dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Carlos Al- 
varez Calderon, Jose Antonio de La- 
valle y Pardo. 

Pour la Republique du Salvador. — Feder- 
ico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 

Pour la Repriblique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, An- 
tonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Ame- 
zaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis -de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX Z. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 

RESOLUCION RESOLUTION 



C'ongrcso cientifico internacional Americano American international Scientific Congress 



Los que Buscriben, Delegados de las 
Republicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Oonferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sua respecti- 
vos Gobiernos, ban aprobado la siguiente 
Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, 
resuelve: 

Felicitar al Excmo. Gobierno Argen- 
tino por haber decretado, y a la Sociedad 
Cientifica Argentina por haber organizado 
y realizado con tan brillante exito, la 
reunion del Congreso Cientifico Interna- 
cional Americano en Buenos Aires, y hace 
votos porque tales Asambleas sean fre- 
cuentes en America y porque en el prox- 
imo Congreso Cientifico Pan-Americano, 
que se reunira en la Ciudad de Washington 
en 1912, esten ampliamente representadas 
las Republicas Americanas, para mayor 
acercamiento de sabios y general difusion 
de las luces y de la ciencia en el mundo. 



Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires a los once dias del mes de Agosto de 
mil novecientos diez, en espanol, ingles, 
portugues, y frances y depositado en el 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la 
Republica Argentina, a fin de que se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplom^tica, a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H.Crowder, Lewis Nixon, 
John Basselt Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidaii, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

236 



The undersigned, Delegates of the Re- 
publics represented in the Fourth Inter- 
national American Conference, duly au- 
thorized by their respective Governments, 
have approved the following Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 

resolves: 

Congratulate the Argentine Govern- 
ment on having decreed, and the Argen- 
tine Scientific Society for having organ- 
ized and held with such brilliant success, 
the meeting of the International Ameri- 
can Scientific Congress at Buenos Aires, 
and expresses the hope that such assem- 
blies may be frequent in America and that 
at the next Pan American Scientific Con- 
gress, to be held at Washington in 1912, 
the American Republics may be fully rep- 
resented in order to bring about closer re- 
lations between scientific men, and a gen- 
eral diffusion of the light of science 
throughout the world. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires, on the eleventh day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each one of the Signa- 
tory Nations through the appropriate dip- 
lomatic channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H.Crowder, Lewis Nixon, 
John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, 
Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. Reinsch, 
David Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 



APPENDIX Z. 



CUAUTA CONFEBENCIA INTEBNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUpAO 

Congresso sdentifico internadonal Avieri- 



Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, de- 
vidamente autorizados pelos seus respec- 
tivos Governos, approvaram a seguinte 
Resolufao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida em Buenos Aires, 
resolve : 

Felicitar o Exmo. Governo Argentine 
por ter decretado, e a Sociedade Scien- 
tifica Argentina por ter organizado e 
realizado, com tao brilhante exito, a re- 
uniao do Congresso Scientifico Inter- 
nacional Americano, em Buenos Aires, e 
faz votos para que taes assembleas sejam 
frequentes na America e para que no 
proximo Congresso Scientifico Pan-Ameri- 
cano, que se reunira na cidade de Wash- 
ington en 1912, estejam largamente repre- 
sentadas as Republicas Americanas, para 
maior approxima^ao dos eruditos, e geral 
diffusao dos conhecimentos e da sciencia. 



Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
inglez, portuguez e francez, e entregue ao 
Ministerio das Relag oes Exteriores da Re- 
publica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela via diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Monte3 de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 



RESOLUTION 

Congr^s scientifique international Ameri- 
cain 

Les soussignes, D61^gu6s des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Am^ricaine, d(i- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements 
respectifs, ont approuve la Resolution 
suivante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Interna- 
tionale Am^ricaine, reunie a Buenos- 
Aires, rfeout: 

Feliciter I'Excellentissime Gouverne- 
ment Argentin pour avoir decr^te, et 
aussi la Societe Scientifique Argentine 
pour avoir organise et realist, avec un 
aussi brillant succes, la reunion du Con- 
gres Scientifique International Am^ri- 
cain a Buenos-Aires, et fait des voeux 
pour que de telles Assemblees soient fre- 
quentes en Am^rique et pour qu'au pro- 
chain Congres Scientifique Pan-Ameri- 
cain qui se reunira a Washington en 1912, 
soient amplement representees les R^- 
publiques Americaines, pour faciliter le 
rapprochement des savants et la diffusion 
g^n^rale des lumieres et de la science 
dans le monde. 

Fait et sign6 a Buenos-Aires, le onzieme 
jour du mois d'aout mil neuf cent dix, en 
espagnol, anglais, portugais et francais, et 
depose au Ministere des Affaires Etrang- 
feres de la Republique Argentine, afin 
qu'il en soit fait des copies authentiquees 
qui seront envoyees, ,par la voie diplo- 
matique, a chacn des Etats signataries. 



Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowd er, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
ZeballoS; 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L, 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas. 

237 



238 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Repiiblica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For la Republica de Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For la Republica de Cuba.- — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For la Republica Dominicana. — AmMco 

Lugo. 
For la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Victo- 

riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For la Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For la Republica de Fanamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For la Republica del Faraguay. — .Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Repiiblica del Feru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For la Republica de El Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For la Republica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Raniii'ez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Republic of Chili.- — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Fanama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Feru.— Eiigenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 239 



Pela Kcpublica do Chile .—Miguel Crvi- 
chaga Tocornal, Erailio Bello Codecido, 
Anlbal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

Pela RepiMica da Colombia. — Roberto 

Ancizar. 
Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 

Volio. 
Pela Repiiblica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo P^rez. Jose M. Carbonell. 
Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Pela Repu blica de Guatemala. — Luis Toledo 

Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 
Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Pelos Estados TJnidos do Mexico. — Vic- 

toriano Salad o Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dla, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Pela Republica do Panama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez. Jose P. Montero. 
Pela Republica do Peru. — Eugenio Larra- 

bure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez Calde- 

ron, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramii-ez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Rcpublique du Chili. — Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bollo Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, lieltran 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Rcpublique de Colombie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Rcpublique de Costa-Rica. — Al- 
fredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos Gar- 
cia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Republique Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pou la Republique de VEquateur. — Ale- 
jandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Rcpublique du Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Republique d'Ha'iti. — Constantin 
Fouchard . 

Pour la Republique du Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Victoria- 
no Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Republique de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Republique de Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pour la Republique du Paraguay. — Teodo- 
sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Republique du Perou. — Eugenio 
Larrabure y Unanue, Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo . 

Pour la Rcpublique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Republique de V Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX AA 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUCION 

Conmemoracion de la apertura del Canal de 
Panamd 

Lob que suscriben, Delegacies de la^ 
Repliblicas representadas en la Cuarta 
Conferencia Internacional Americana, 
debidamente autorizados por sus Gobier- 
nos, ban aprobado la siguiente Resolu- 
ci6n: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, resuelve: 

Unica: Se encomienda al Consejo Pleno 
de la Union de las Repiiblicas Ameri- 
canas, establecido en la ciudad de "Wash- 
ington, la manera de solemnizar la 
aperture del canal de Panama. 

Hecbo y firmado en la ciudad de 
Buenos Aires, a los cuatro dias del mes 
de Agosto de mil novecientos diez, en 
espanol, portugues ingles y frances, y 
depositado en el Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de la Repiiblica Argentina, a 
fin de que se saquen copias certificadas 
para enviarlas, por la via diplomatica, a 
cada uno de los Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, Da\dd Kinley. 

Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, 
Jose L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha. 

Por la Republica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Por la Rep'khlica de Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Por la Republica de Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Por la Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V41ez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jos^ M. Carbonell. 



RESOLUTION 

Commemoration of the oftening of the 
Panama Canal 

The undersigned, Delegates of the 
Republics represented at the Fourth 
International American Conference, duly 
authorized by their Governments, have 
approved the following Resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference resolves: 

To refer the manner in which the open- 
ing of the Panama Canal shall be cele- 
brated, to the Governing Board of the 
Union of American Republics, in the city 
of Washington. 

Done and signed in the city of Buenos 
Aires on the Fourth day of Augiist in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and ten, 
in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each one of the Signa- 
tory Nations through the appropriate 
diplomatic channels. 
For the United States of America. — Henry 
^Tiite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, Da\'id Kinley. 
For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
^lontes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Car- 
los Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 
For the United States of Brazil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 
For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Cai'los Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 



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APPENDIX AA. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUgAO 

Commemora^o da abertura do Canal de 
Panamd 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus Governos, 
approvaram a seguinte Resolugao : 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana resolve: 

Encommendar ao Conselho Director da 
Uniao das Republicas Americanas, esta- 
belecido na cidade de Washington, o 
modo de solemnizar a abertm-a do Canal 
de Panamd,. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aii-es, aos quatro dias do mez de Agosto 
de mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, 
portuguez, inglez e francez, e archivado 
no Ministerio das Relagoes Exteriores da 
Republica Argentina, para que se tirem 
copias authenticadas que serao enviadas, 
pela Ada diplomatica, a cada um dos 
Estados signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da America. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, DaA^d Kinley. 

Pela Republica Argentina. — Antonio 

Bermejo. Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 

A. Montes de Oca. Epifanio Portela, 

■ Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 

S. Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho. Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pela Republica do Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocomal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Republica da Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Republica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Republica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
V^lez. Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Ar6stegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez. Jose M. Carbonell. 



74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 16 



RESOLUTION 

Commemoration de I'ouverture dr-- 
de Panaraa 

Les Soussign6s, Delegues des Repu, 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Confer- 
ence Internationale Americaine, dument 
autorises par leurs Gouvernements, ont 
approuve la Resolution suivante: 

La Quatrieme Conference Internation- 
ale Americaine resout: 

De confier au Conseil Directeur de 
r Union des Rep ub liques Americaines 
etabli a Washington, la maniere de solen- 
niser 1' inauguration du Canal de Panama. 

Fait et signe dans la Ville de Buenos- 
Aires, le quatre Aout mil neuf cent dix, 
en espagnol, portugais, anglais et frangais, 
et depose au Ministere des Affaires Etran- 
geres de la Republique Argentine, pour 
qu'il en soit fait des copies authentiqu^es 
qui seront envoyees, par la voie diplo- 
matique, a chacun des Etats signataires. 



Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
"White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

Pour la Republique Argentine. — ^Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos., 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — ^Joaquim 
Mmtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida ISIosueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pour la Republique du CTiVi.— Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocomal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltran 
Mathieu. 

Pour la Republique de Colombie. — -Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Republique de Costa-Rica. — ■ 
Alfredo Volio. 

Pour la Republique de Cuba. — Carlos 
Garcia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, 
Antonio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Car- 
bonell. 

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242 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



For la Repuhlica Dominicana. — Am^rico 

Lugo. 
For la Repuhlica del Ecvxidor. — Alejandro 

Cai'denas. 
For la Repuhlica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For la Repuhlica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For la Repuhlica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For los Estados TJnidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
'<^rdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
"to A. Esteva Ruiz. . 
■v- .r.:"".^ jg Nicaragua. — Manuel 

jtica de Fanamd. — Belisario 

^epuhlica del Faraguay.- — Teodosio 

O^nzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For la Repuhlica del Feru. — Carlos 

Alvarez Calderon, Jose Antonio de 

Lavalle y Par do. 
,. or la Repuhlica de El Salvador. — Federico 

Mejla, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For la Repuhlica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 

Lugo. 
For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cdrdenas. 
For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
For the Republic of Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
For the United Mexican States. — Victori- 

ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 

Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 

Esteva Ruiz. 
For the Republic of Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
For the Republic of Fanama. — Belisario 

Porras. 
For the Republic of Faraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
For the Republic of Feru. — Carlos Alvarez 

Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 

Pardo. 
For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 
For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. 

Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — ^Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 243 



Pela Republica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Republica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

Pela Republica de Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pela Republica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Foucliard. 

Pela Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pela Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Vic- 
toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis P6rez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Ro- 
berto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Republica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Republica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Republica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Republica do Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calder6n, Jos6 Antonio de Layalle y 
Pardo. 

Pela Republica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Republica do Ui-uguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Republique Dominicaine . — ■Ame- 
rico Lugo. 
Pour la Republique de V Equateur. — Alej- 
andro Cardenas. 
Pour la Republique de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Pour la Republique d'Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard. 
Pour la Republique de Honduras. — ^Luis 

Lazo Arriaga. 
Pour les Etats-Unis Mexicains. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis P^rez 

Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedru^^ 

Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Pour la Republique df, N"^ Canal 

Manuel Perez Alonsc^!^' 
Pour la Republique d€\'., 

sario Porras. ' ^b- 

Pour la Republique du Paray,-. 

dosio Gonzalez, Jose P. Monrer^^' ^''^^ 
Pour la Republique du Perow.— Carlos 

Alvarez Calderon, Jose Antonio de 

Lavalle y Pardo. 
Pour la Republique du Salvador. — F^f. 

rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez SuAr"* 
Pour la Republique de l' Uruguay. — 

Gonzalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, 

Antonio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose 

Amezaga. 
Pour les Etats-Unis de Venezuela. — Manuel 

Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX BB. 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA. 



RESOLTJCION 

Futuras conferencias 

Los que suscriben, Delegados de las Re- 
piiblicas representadas en la Cuarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, debi- 
damente autorizados por sus Gobiernos, 
ban aprobado la siguiente Resolucion: 

La Cuarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana, reunida en Buenos Aires, re- 
suelve: 

1°. Se faculta al Consejo Directivo de la 
Union de las Repiiblicas Americanas 
para que dentro del plazo de cinco anos, 
convoque la reunion de la Quinta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana. Se le 
autoriza asi mismo para que seiiale la 
ciudad que deba servir de sede a la Asam- 
blea y para que de forma al programa de 
este e intervenga en todos los pormenores 
concernientes, de conformidad con lo que 
establece la Resolucion que organiza la 
Union de las Republicas Americanas. 
Si no fuere posible la reunion de las Con- 
ferencias dentro del plazo fijado, el Con- 
sejo Directivo de la Union podra senalar 
otra fecha. 

2°. Se recomienda al mismo Consejo 
Directivo que haga, con un ano de antici- 
pacion, la designacion de fecha y lugar 
para la Quinta Conferencia y que, a lo 
menos, seis meses antes de la 6poca que 
senale, comunique el programa para dicha 
Conferencia. 

Hecho y firmado en la ciudad de Buenos 
Aires, a los once dias del mes de Agosto 
de mil novecientos diez, en espanol, por- 
tugues, ingles y frances, y depositado en 
el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de 
la Repiiblica Argentina, a fin de qiie se 
saquen copias certificadas para enviarlas, 
por la via diplomatica, a cada uno de los 
Estados signatarios. 

Por los Estados Unidos de America. — 
Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, 
Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Ber- 
nard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul 
S. Reinsch, David Kinley. 

244 



RESOLUTION 

Future conferences 

The undersigned, Delegates off'the 
Republics represented at the Fourth In- 
ternational American Conference, duly 
authorized by their Governments, have 
approved the following resolution: 

The Fourth International American 
Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, 
resolves: 

1st. That the Governing Board of the 
Union of American Republics be empow- 
ered, within a term of five years, to con- 
voke the meeting of the Fifth Interna- 
tional American Conference. It is at the 
same time authorised to appoint the city 
which shall be the place of meeting of the 
Conference, to draw up the program 
and to arrange all details, in conformity 
with the provisions of the Resolution 
organizing the Union of American Re- 
publics. If the assembling of the Con- 
ference within the period fixed should not 
be possible, the Governing Board of the 
Union may appoint another date. 

2nd. It is recommended to the said 
Governing Board that one year's notice 
be given of the date and place appointed 
for the Fifth Conference, and that the 
program for the said Conference be 
communicated not less than six months 
previous to the appointed date. 

Done and signed in the City of Buenos 
Aires, on the eleventh day of August in 
the year one thousand nine hundred and 
ten, in Spanish, Portuguese, English and 
French, and deposited in the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Repub- 
lic, in order that certified copies be made 
for transmission to each of the Signatory 
Nations, through appropriate diplomatic 
channels. 

For the United States of America. — Henry 
White, Enoch W. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Pa,ul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 



APPENDIX BB 



CUARTA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL AMERICANA 



RESOLUpAO. 

Futuras Conferencias 

Os abaixo assignados, Delegados das 
Republicas representadas na Quarta Con- 
ferencia Internacional Americana, devi- 
damente autorizados pelos seus Govemos, 
appro varam a seguinte Resolugao: 

A Quarta Conferencia Internacional 
Americana resolve: 

1." Autoriza-se ao Conselho Director da 
Uniao das Repyblicas Americanas a 
convocar, dentro do prazo de cinco annos, 
a reuniao da Quinta Conferencia Inter- 
nacional Americana, ficando tambem 
autorizado a indicar a cidade que devera 
servir de sede i, assemblea, a organizar o 
programma d'esta, e a intervir em todos 
OS pormenores conforme o estabelecido 
pela resolugao que organiza a Uniao das 
Republicas Americanas." Se nao for pos- 
sivel a reuniao da Conferencia dentro do 
prazo marcado, o Conselho Director da 
Uniao poderd designar outra data. 



2° Recommenda-se ao mesmo Conselho 
Director que fixe, com um anno de ante- 
cipagao, a data e logar para a Quinta Con- 
ferencia, e que, pelo menos seis mezes 
antes, communique o programma da 
referida Conferencia. 

Feito e assignado na cidade de Buenos 
Aires, aos onze dias do mez de Agosto de 
mil novecentos e dez, em hespanhol, por- 
tuguez, inglez e francez, e entregue no Min- 
isterio das Relagoes Exteriores da Repub- 
lica Argentina, para que se tirem copias 
authenticadas, que serao enviadas, pela 
via diplomatica, a cada um dos Estados 
signatarios. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Alflerica. — Henry 
White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 



RESOLUTION 

Futures confirences 

Les soussignes, Delegues des Repub- 
liques representees a la Quatrieme Con- 
ference Internationale Americaine, dti- 
ment autorises par leurs Gouvernements, 
ont approuve la Resolution suivante : 

La Quatrieme Conference Internation- 
ale Americaine reunie a Buenos-Aires 
resout : 

1.° II est confie aux soins du Conseil 
Directif de I'Union des Republiques 
Americaines de convoquer dans le delai 
de cinq annees la reunion de la Cinquieme 
Conierence Internationale Americaine. — 
U est egalement autorise a designer la ville 
qui devra servir de siege a I'Assemblee, h 
en determiner le programme et a interve- 
nir dans tons les details qui y auraient 
trait, conformement a ce qui est etabli 
par la Resolution qui organise 1'" Union 
des Republiques Americaines." Si la 
reunion de la Conference ne pouvait se 
realiser dans le laps de temps fixe le Con- 
seil Directif de I'Union pourra designer 
une autre date. 

2." II est recommande au meme Conseil 
Directif de proceder un an d'avance a la 
designation de la date et du lieu pour la 
reunion de la Cinquieme Conference, et 
de communiquer le programme de la dite 
Conference six mois au moins avant I'epo- 
que designee. 

Fait et signe a Buenos-Aires, le onzieme 
jour du mois d'aout mil neuf cent dix, en 
espagnol, en portugais, en anglais et en 
frangais, et depose au Ministere des Af- 
faires Etrangeres de la Republique Argen- 
tine, afin qu'il en soit fait des copies au- 
thentiquees qui seront envoyees, par la 
voie diplomatique, a chacun des Etats 
signataires. 

Pour les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. — Henry 
"^Tiite, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis 
Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard 
Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul S. 
Reinsch, David Kinley. 

245 



246 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



Por la Republica Argentina. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel 
A. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, 
Carlos Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao 
S. Zeballos. 

Por los Estados Unidos del Brasil. — ^Joa- 
quim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose 
L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, 
Gastao da Cunha. 

Por la Repixhlica de Chile. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Belle Codecido, 
Anfbal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Por la Rep-dblica de Colombia. — Roberio 

Ancizar. 
Por la Repiiblica de Costa Rica. — ^Alfredo 

Volio. 
Por la Repiiblica de Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 

Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 

zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 

Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 
Por la Republica Dominicana. — Americo 

Lugo. 
Por la Republica del Ecuador. — Alejandro 

Cardenas. 
Por la Republica de Guatemala. — Luis 

Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 

Estrada. 
Por la Repilblica de Haiti. — Constantin 

Fouchard . 
Por la Republica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 

Arriaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. — Vic- 

toriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Ver- 

dia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 

A. Esteva Ruiz. 
Por la Repliblica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 

Perez Alonso. 
Por la Republica de Panamd. — Belisario 

Porras. 
Por la Repiiblica del Paraguay. — Teodosio 

Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 
Por la Republica del Peril. — Carlos Alva- 
rez Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavelle 

y Pardo. 
Por la Repiiblica de El Salvador. —Federico 

Mejia, Francisco Martinez Sudrez. 
Por ia Repiiblica del Uruguay. — Gonzalo 

Ramijrez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 

M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 
Por los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. — 

Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



For the Argentine Republic. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jose A. Terry, Estanislao S. Ze- 
ballos. 

For the United States of Brazil. — ^Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueria, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

For the Republic of Chili. — Miguel Cru- 
chaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

For the Republic of Colombia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

For the Republic of Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

For the Republic of Cuba. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

For the Dominican Republic. — Americo 
Lugo. 

For the Republic of Ecuador. — Alejandro 
Cardenas. 

For the Republic of Guatemala. — Luis To- 
ledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

For the Republic of Haiti — Constantin 
Fouchard. 

For the Republic of Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

For the United MeTi'can States. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdla, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. 
Esteva Ruiz. 

For the Republic of Nicaragua. — ^Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

For the Republic of Panama. — Belisario 
Porras. 

For the Republic of Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

For the Repubic of Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jos6 Antonio de Lavelle y 
Pardo. 

For the Republic of Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

For the Republic of Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jos^ Amezaga. 

For the United States of Venezuela. — Man- 
uel Diaz Rodriguez, C^sar Zumeta. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



247 



Pela Repuhlica Argentina. — Antonio Ber- 
mejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Brasil. — Joaquim 
Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, Jos6 L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pela Repuhlica do Chile. — Miguel Crucha- 
ga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, 
Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Mathieu. 

Pela Repuhlica da Colomhia. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pela Repuhlica da Costa Rica. — Alfredo 
Volio. 

Pela Repuhlica de Cuha. — Carlos Garcia 
Velez, Rafael Montoro y Vald^s, Gon- 
zalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Antonio 
Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pela Repuhlica Dominicana. — Americo 
Lugo. 

Pela Repuhlica do Equador. — Alejandro 
Cdrdenas. 

Pela Repuhlica de Guatemala. — Luis Tole- 
do Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Es- 
trada. 

Pela Repuhlica de Haiti. — Constantin 
Fou chard. 

Pela Repuhlica de Honduras. — Luis Lazo 
Arriaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos do Mexico. — Victo- 
riano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez 
Verdia, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, 
Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pela Repuhlica de Nicaragua. — Manuel 
Perez Alonso. 

Pela Repuhlica do Panamd. — Belisario 
Porras. 

Pela Repuhlica do Paraguay. — Teodosio 
Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pela Repuhlica do Peru. — Carlos Alvarez 
Calderon, Jose Antonio de Lavalle y 
Pardo. 

Pela Repuhlica do Salvador. — Federico 
Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pela Repuhlica do Uruguay. — Gonzalo 
Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio 
M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pelos Estados Unidos da Venezuela. — 
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



Pour la Repuhlique Argentine. — Antonio 
Bermejo, Eduardo Bidau, Manuel A. 
Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos 
Salas, Jos6 A. Terry, Estanislao S. 
Zeballos., 

Pour les Etats-Unis du Bresil. — Joaquim 
Mui'tinho Domicio da Gama, Jose L. 
Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastao 
da Cunha. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Chili.— Miguel 
Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Code- 
cido, Anibal Cruz Diaz, Beltrdn Ma- 
thieu. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Colomhie. — Roberto 
Ancizar. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Costa-Rica. — 
Alfredo Volio. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Cuha. — Carlos 
Garcia Velez, Rafael Montoro y Valdes, 
Gonzalo de Quesada y Arostegui, Anto- 
nio Gonzalo Perez, Jose M. Carbonell. 

Pour la Repuhlique Dominicaine. — Ame- 
rico Lugo. 

Pour la Repuhlique de z'Equateur. — • 
Alejandro Cardenas. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Guatemala. — Luis 
Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario 
Estrada. 

Pour la Repuhliqu£ d' HaUi. — Constantin 
Fouchai'd. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Honduras. — Luis 
Lazo Ariaga. 

Pour les Etats Unis Mexicains. — Victori- 
ano Salado Alvarez, Luis Perez Verdia, 
Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto 
A. Esteva Ruiz. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Nicaragua. — Man- 
uel Perez Alonso. 

Pour la Repuhlique de Panama. — Be- 
lisario Porras. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Paraguay. — Teodo- 
sio Gonzalez, Jose P. Montero. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Perou. — Carlos 
Alvarez Calderon, Jos6 Antonio de 
Lavalle y Pardo. 

Pour la Repuhlique du Salvador. — Fede- 
rico Mejia, Francisco Martinez Suarez. 

Pour la Repuhlique de l' Uruguay. — Gon- 
zalo Ramirez, Carlos M. de Pena, Anto- 
nio M. Rodriguez, Juan Jose Amezaga. 

Pour les Etats Unisde Venezuela. — Manuel 
Diaz Rodriguez, Cesar Zumeta. 



APPENDIX CC. 



MOTIONS. 



Honorary presidents: The Fourth International American Conference resolves: 
That their Excellencies, Dr. Victorino de la Plaza and Philander C. Knox, respec- 
tively Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic and Secretary of State 
of the United States of America, be acclaimed honorary presidents of the Fourth 
International American Conference. 

July 12, 1910. 



That the members of the Fourth International American Conference rise as a 
token of respect to the deceased delegates of former conferences. 
July 14, 1910. 



That the Fourth International American Conference manifest the profound regret 
of the countries therein represented at the loss America has suffered through the 
death of the distinguished Brazilian statesman, Joaquim Nabuco, president of the 
Third International American Conference, held at Rio de Janeiro. 

July 14, 1910. 



That the Fourth International American Conference pay a tribute of respect and 
of sympathy to the merits of the distinguished Argentine, Emilio Mitre. 
July 14, 1910. 



That the Fourth International American Conference rise as an evidence of friend- 
ship toward France, and that its president address a telegram to the President of that 
country in the following terms: 

^ t"The plenipotentiary delegates of the nations of America assembled in the Foiu'th 
International Conference of Buenos Aires, presents, through me, their respects to 
Yowc Excellency, and they greet on this glorious anniversary the great Republic 
of Europe." 

July 14, 1910. 

That the Fourth International American Conference adopt a vote of sympathy and 
regret for the Republic of Costa Rica because of the recent catastrophe that destroyed 
the city of Cartago, and that the President of the sister Republic be so notified. 

July 14, 1910. 

That the Fourth International American Conference authorize the chair to pass 
without delay to the committees the opinions, reports, and other documents, unless 
the office of the secretary itself should request them in case it needed them. 

July 20, 1910. 

248 



FOUBTH INTEENATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 249 
COMMEMOJIATION Or THE CENTENNIAL OF COLOMBIA. 

That the President of the Fourth International American Conference address a 
greeting by telegraph to the Government of Colombia on the celebration of the first 
centennial of its independence and that the delegates rise in honor of the sister 
Republic. 

July 20, 1910. 



That the Fourth International American Conference innate the senators and deputies 
of the Argentine Republic to attend its sessions, and authorize the chair to extend 
this invitation to the persons it deems proper. 

July 20, 1910. 



COMMEMORATION OP THE INDEPENDENCE OP PERU. 

That the Fourth International American Conference greet, through its president, 
the Republic of Peru upon the anniversary of its independence, and that its members 
rise in honor of that country. 

July 28, 1910, 



COMMEMORATION OP ECUADOR. 

The Fourth International American Conference met in Buenos Aires, resolves: 
That the chair of the Fourth International American Conference greets in the name 

of said conference the Government of Ecuador in honor of its national anniversary, 

and that the delegates rise in honor of said Republic. 
August 10, 1910. 



HONORARY PRESIDENT OP THE CONFERENCE. 

That the Fourth International American Conference, through the chair, address a 
message of congratulation to His Excellency Carlos Rodriguez Larreta, member of the 
Argentine delegation, on his appointment as minister for foreign affairs of Argentina 
and elect him honorary president of the conference. 

August 10, 1910. 



HONORARY PRESIDENT OP THE CONFERENCE. 

That the Fourth International American Conference decline to accept the resig- 
nation of the honorary president of the conference, tendered by Dr. Victorino de 
la Plaza, formerly minister for foreign affairs of the Argentine Republic. 

August 10, 1910. 



That the Fourth International American Conference adjourn its sessions in order 
that the delegates may attend the taking of the oath of office by the minister for 
foreign affairs. Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Larreta. 

August 10, 1910. 



KESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OP CHILE, PEDRO MONTT. 

That the Fourth International Confereruce met in respect for the memory of His 
Excellency the President of Chile, Pedro Montt, send, through the chair, the expression 
of its condolence to the Goverimient and people of Chile on account of the death 
of that illustrious statesman. 

August 17, 1910. 



250 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 



PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY. 



That the Fourth International American Conference urge the American Govern- 
ments to prosecute and hasten the work of the Pan American Railway according to 
a fixed and determined plan. 

August 20, 1910. 



MESSAGE TO MR. ELIHU ROOT. 



That the Fourth International American Conference send to your excellency, a vote 
of high appreciation and constant recollection. 
August 20, 1910. 



MESSAGE TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 



That there be transmitted by cable to the Honorable P. C. Knox, Secretary of 
State of the United States of America, an expression of the grateful thanks of the 
Conference for his share as Chairman of the Governing Board in giving to the program 
its final form and in the success that the Conference has attained. 

August 27, 1910. 



The Fourth International American Conference resolves to express in this last 
session their profound thanks for the tokens of affectionate regard of which they 
have been the recipient from the Government of His Excellency the President of 
the Argentine Republic, Don Jose Figueroa Alcorta, from his excellency the Minister 
for Foreign Affairs and his colleagues in the cabinet, as well as the mayor, the national 
centennial committee, the commanders of the army and navy, and the other officials 
of the nation; the distinguished committee of ladies; the presidents of the clubs, and 
other associations of the Argentine, and its hospitable people. 

August 27, 1910. 



It is resolved by the delegates of the Fourth International American Conference 
to spread upon the minutes the evidence of high and affectionate appreciation that 
they manifest in this manner of the courtesies they have received from Dr. Antonio 
Bermejo, who with as much wisdom as impartiality has presided over their deliber- 
ations; that this appreciation shall be made to include Senor Epifanio Portela, sec- 
retary general of the conference for his constant labor, his invariable courtesy, and 
his delicate attentions in the arduous labors in his charge and that, moreover, very 
cordial thanks be given to the secretaries. Dr. Arturo L. Dominguez and Dr. Matiaa 
G. Sanchez Sorondo, and to the officials and personnel of the conference for the zeal 
and amiability with which they have discharged their duties, all of them contributing 
to the task which has been equally fruitful and pleasant. 

August 27, 1910. 



APPENDIX DD. 



REPORT OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE ON THE COFFEE CONGRESS 
PROVIDED FOR BY THIRD CONFERENCE. 

The third committee has the honor to report on the following proposition presented 
by the delegations of Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico: 

Buenos Aires, August 3, 1910. 
Your Excellency, the Secretary General: The undersigned Delegations, 
representative in the present conference of countries actively interested in the adop- 
tion of measures that may tend to meet the crisis which the commercial world has 
experienced in coffee, a product that constitutes the wealth of 15 Republics of the 
Continent, taking into consideration the fact that this important subject was treated 
in a resolution of the Third International American Conference of Rio de Janeiro 
which recommended to the Governments the holding of an international American 
conference to suggest efficacious remedies for the benefit of coffee producers which 
might serve to combat the crisis felt for some years past in this branch of industry, the 
city of Sao Paulo, in the United States of Brazil, being designated as the place of 
meeting of the assembly in question, respectfully submits the following resolution: 
(For text of resolution, see Appendix P) 

251 



APPENDIX EE. 



REPORT OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE, ON THE PAN AMERICAN UNION. 

Submission and consideration of the report of the Director of the International 
Bureau of American Republics, together with consideration of the present organization 
and of recommendations for the possible extension and improvement of its efficiency. 

Honorable Conference: The fourth committee has the honor to submit to the 
conference the following report, based upon the report of the Dixector of the Interna- 
tional Bureau of American Republics, the proposals annexed to the memorial of the 
Venezuelan delegation, sustained by Mr. C6sar Zumeta, and the projects of the resolu- 
tion and convention presented, the first by Mr. Anlbal Cruz Diaz, the second by Mr, 
Paul S. Reinsch. 

The commission is of opinion that the International Bureau of American Republics 
has rendered important services to the prosperity and culture of the peoples of America, 
promoting in each one of them a more exact knowledge of the other nations of the 
Continent, and more intimate and constant exchange of products and ideas. As the 
embodiment of the perpetuity of this union, there has been erected in the city of 
Washington, at the expense of all the Republics which constituted it, and of that 
ardent supporter of international peace, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, a building which serves 
as a proper and adequate home and which constitutes in the words of the Hon. Elihu 
Root "a covenant of fraternal duty, a declaration of allegiance to an ideal." 

In this spirit the committee has with unity of purpose considered the important 
and very able report of the director of this institution, the maintenance of which 
interests equally each one of the Republics which have created and which sustain it, 
and the various proposals tending to perfect its organization and to secure its stability. 

The committee has maintained the form of resolution which the statutes of the union 
have had since the beginning, and under which its present development has been 
achieved; and it recommends to the Governments that they consider the advisability 
of raising this agreement to the dignity of a convention upon the bases which are 
herewith proposed. 

For the sake of brevity and in order that the name of the institution may correspond 
fully to the importance of the purpose to which the nations of America in common 
devote themselves, the word "International" has been omitted from the title of the 
Union of the Republics, and it is recommended that the term Pan American Union 
be used for that organization of services which until now has been known as a bureau. 

In order that the union may be able to achieve most completely its vast task of 
information and propaganda, and in order that this may rest upon an official basis, it 
is indispensable to organize in an efficient manner the compiling of information and 
reports in each Republic, and their prompt transmission to Washington. The com- 
mittee therefore believes that this important work can not be fully carried out without 
attributing this function, together with the responsibilities attaching thereto, to the 
Pan American committees, created by the Third International American Conference. 
As these committees are composed in each country of former delegates to this confer- 
ence, and of other distinguished citizens, their cooperation in behalf of the respective 
countries will be of great assistance to the union, and will distribute in a better 
manner the common labor and responsibility . The initiative of these committees and 
a healthy rivalry between them will undoubtedly increase the utility and efficacy of 
the Pan American Union. 

In order to express the fraternal character of the union, the committee has affirmed 
the right of each State to be represented in the governing board, defining the manner 
of giving a vote to any Republic which may not have at the time being a diplomatic 
representative in Washington; and, moreover, taking full account of the precedence 
and the very acceptable obligations which justify the designation of the Secretary of 
State of the United States of America as president of the governing board of the union, 

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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 253 

this presidency has been confirmed by the mutual agreement of the nations represented, 
in accordance with the equal dignity of all the States which constitute the Union of 
American Republics. 

Definiteness has been introduced in the agreement to pay into the treasury of the Pan 
American Union the annual quota which each Government is to contribute upon a 
fixed date toward the maintenance of the union in conformity with the determinations 
of the governing board. 

In order that the rank of the officers of the Pan American Union in the new organi- 
zation may be more exactly defined, the committee recommends that the conference 
confer upon the director of the institution and the secretary of the board, respectively, 
the titles of director general and of assistant director. In connection with this act it 
is considered opportune to express a high appreciation of the commendable and suc- 
cessful work of direction and propaganda on the part of Mr. John Barrett, and of the 
competency with which Mr. Francisco J. Ydnes has fulfilled his duties and has assisted 
this committee in the course of its work. 

The resolutions of Rio de Janeiro have been maintained with the modifications indi- 
cated and with such others as rendered the original text more precise, your committee 
has the honor to submit the resolution to the pleasure of the conference, together with 
the resolution embodying the proposed convention. 



APPENDIX FF. 
[For the text of this report, see ante p. 12.] 



APPENDIX GG 



PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY : REPORT OF THE PERMANENT PAN AMERICAN 
RAILWAY COMMITTEE TO THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN 
CONFERENCE, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 

Washington, D. C, June 10, 1910. 

Messrs. Delegates: I beg leave to submit, on behalf of the permanent Pan 
American Railway committee, whose existence was confirmed by the Third Inter- 
national American Conference, the following report: 

Since the meeting of the Third Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906 steady progress 
has been made in the realization of the project of uniting the three Americag by an 
international railway line. The committee has continued its work in the way of 
explaining the scope and development of the plan, in affording the information 
which has been constantly sought, in answering inquiries of a specific nature, and 
in giving publicity to the measures of the various Governments which offer induce- 
ments for capitalists to engage in railway construction in connection with the Pan 
American project. 

The importance of the enterprise grows with the industrial and commercial progress 
of the various Republics. 

In 1890, when the first practical steps were taken toward realizing the aspiration 
for intercontinental railway communication by the First Conference, the total foreign 
commerce of the countries south of the United States from Mexico to the Straits of 
Magellan was approximately 1880,000,000. In 1909 this commerce was more than 
$2,000,000,000. The increase has been a natural result of the railway construction 
which has helped to develop the resources of the different countries and thus to add 
to their commerce. Much of this railway construction has been either of trunk lines 
which form sections in the Pan American route or of lines which are branches of the 
general Pan American system and are feeders to it. The very great growth of trade 
in the last 20 years shows how traffic awaits railway facilities and how also it is 
created when they are provided. This increased commerce, which furnishes the 
basis for so much railway traffic, has not been limited to any section. All the Repub- 
lics which would be interconnected by the Pan American Railway system have 
shared in it. 

In keeping the public informed of the progress made after the Third Conference at 
Rio de Janeiro, the committee had the benefit of a subsequent report by one of its 
members, Mr. Charles M. Pepper. The results of his observations during a trip of a 
year's duration in South America were reported to the committee in May, 1908, This 
supplemented the report presented by Mr. Pepper as special commissioner in 1904, 
and showed what had been accomplished in the intervening period. It was trans- 
mitted by the committee to the Secretary of State and was given wide circulation. 

The committee undertakes to summarize the situation as it now exists and to indi- 
cate the prospects of future action in furtherance of the general plan. In obtaining 
information the committee has had the cooperation of the Department of State, of the 
International Bureau of American Republics, and of various diplomatic representa- 
tives of the different Republics represented in Washington. 



Through railway communication now exists from the cities of the United States to 
the southern border of Mexico. The enlightened and progressive policy of the Mexi- 
can Government has secured this result, which itself is an important means of provid- 
ing through railway lines from New York to the Panama Canal Zone. The distance from 
New York to the City of Mexico is 3,026 miles; thence to Gamboa on the Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec 559 miles, and thence to the Guatemalan border 284 miles, making a 
total distance of 3,869 miles from New York to the northern terminal of the Intercon- 
tinental or Pan American Railway. 

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JOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN STATES. 255 

CENTRAL AMERICA. 

\Mien there is direct railway communication from New York to the Panama Canal 
Zone the first great link of the Pan American Railway system will be completed. A 
review of the lines in operation and those under construction in the Republics of Cen- 
tral America shows that there is now lacking only a small section, less than 40 miles, 
in order to secure the through connection to the city of Guatemala. The building of 
this link has been undertaken by responsible capitalists who are interested in the 
existing railway systems of Central America. This section may be completed within 
a year. From Guatemala City to Zacapa a line is in operation and the group of capi- 
talists who control the other lines are now engaged in surveys for the extension from 
Zacapa to the border of Salvador, and from there on through to Honduras. In Guate- 
mala about 50 miles of this extension remain to be built, and in Salvador 285 miles. 
The section 49 miles long in Salvador from Santa Ana to the city of El Salvador is 
already built and will serve as a link in the main system. Construction has begun at 
La Union for the line to the city of Salvador. This work, it is expected, will be 
finished within 18 months. 

To cross Honduras a section of 72 miles will be necessary. This will naturally 
follow the completion of the line through Salvador. The railway under construction 
on the Atlantic coast of Honduras ultimately will be extended to the Pacific. In Nica- 
ragua a link of 38 miles will join the northern boundary with the existing line 105 
miles long, which serves as a section on the Pan American route from Chinandega to 
Granada, and 68 miles must be constructed to reach the border of Costa Rica. 

Costa Rica has 182 miles of railway in operation, part of which, the line from Guapiles 
to Port Limon, may serve as an Atlantic coast section of the Pan American trunk 
when the gap is closed up to the eastern frontier of Nicaragua. From Port Limon to 
the Canal Zone is 226 miles. Of this a section 26 miles long is already in operation. 
This line follows the alternative route suggested by the engineer corps of the inter- 
continental survey in leaving the Pacific coast and crossing to the Atlantic slope. 
Adopting this plan, this distance from the southern border of Mexico to the Canal 
Zone is 1,183 miles, of which 675 miles remain to be built. The route is a zigzag one, 
but is in the natiure of practical railway construction which looks to traffic and does 
not undertake to adhere strictly to air-line surveys. Should the Pacific coast route 
be followed the distance to be covered would be somewhat longer. Most of the sections 
already constructed, with the exception of the line in Costa Rica, would serve for 
this route. This plan would also include the construction of the line from Panama 
to David along the Pacific slope, 274 miles in length, to which the Government of the 
Republic of Panama is committed. 

To sum up the railway situation in Central America without going into further 
details, 508 miles servingfor Pan American or intercontinental purposes are in opera- 
tion, 690 miles of feeders are already built, and 675 miles remain to be constructed in 
order to reach the Canal Zone by the shortest route, while 875 miles remain to be 
built by the longer route; that is to say, there are to-day in Central America 1,200 
miles of railway of all kinds in operation and 675 yet to be built to join up and connect 
them with the trunk system reaching to Mexico and the United States. 

Note should be made in connection with railway construction in Central America 
of the completion of the interoceanic lines. The line across Guatemala from San 
Jose on the Pacific to Puerto Barrios was completed in 1908. The through railway 
across Costa Rica is another important transverse line. These interoceanic or cross 
lines are in the nature of branches of the main trunk. The interoceanic lines and 
the main trunk serve as feeders to one another. 

The total foreign commerce of Central America is now approximately 150,000,000 
a year. Every mile of railway that is completed adds to this commerce and in opening 
up the resources of very rich regions insures a valuable traffic. 

In connection with the Central American section of the Pan American system 
attention is drawn to the action of the Central American Peace Conference held at 
Washington in the latter part of 1907. This conference, manifesting the desire of the 
Governments represented to contribute their respective shares toward the realization 
of the great work of the Pan American Railway committee, concluded a special con- 
vention. It was proposed that commissions be appointed which should report to the 
different Governments the most suitable measures for the construction of the respective 
sections, and that the effort should be made to secure the organization of one or more 
companies to construct the sections indicated; and, if that were impossible, to consoli- 
date and bring to an agreement the different companies holding contracts or conces- 
sions. It was also proposed that the contracting companies should come to an agree- 
ment with the Governments of the United States and of Mexico and of Panama 
concerning everything relating to the transit of merchandise and passengers from 
border to border. 



256 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

SOUTH AMERICA. 

The South American continent presents a different situation from Mexico and 
Central America as to the construction of a through trunk line. The most difficult 
sections are those which are essential to the mineral development of the countries of 
the Andes. In Colombia, owing to various circumstances, not much progress has yet 
been made on the main trunk of the Pan American system, but some activity in 
reported in extending the line that now reaches from Buenaventura on the Pacific to 
Cali. The extension of this line north to Cartago and south to Popayan will form 
links in the Pan American system. The Colombian Government, however, has 
succeeded in supplementing its facilities of river navigation by railway connections. 
The line has been completed from the capital, Bogota to Girardot on the Magdalena 
River. Headway has been made with various sections paralleling the river and also 
with some of the extensions from the river ports to interior points. A valuable part 
of the vast natural resources of Colombia are tributary to the Pan American route and 
the opportunities for their exploitation should encourage the various projects for 
building sections of the line. 

Ecuador shows a marked advance in Pan American construction. The railway con- 
necting Quito, the capital, with Guayaquil, on the coast, furnishes 160 miles, the 
section between Quito and Alauai, of a direct link on the Pan American route. The 
Government has made arrangements which seem to assure at an early date the exten- 
sion from Alausi south to Cuenca and there is also the probability of construction 
north from Quito to Ibarra within three years as provisionally contracted for by the 
executive. This will be a 100-mile link. Contracts which have been made for sev- 
eral short coast lines will also add to the railway facilities of Ecuador. Work has 
begun on the railway from the Bay of Caraquez to Quito, which will be 182 miles 
in length and will serve as a feeder to the Pan American system. The plans of the 
Government for rail connection to the Amazon River region are also important. 

Peru, by adhering steadily to its policy of making the Pan American trunk the basis 
of its railway development, has obtained important results. On the direct Pan 
American route the line is in operation from the mining center of the Cerro de Pasco, 
south to Huancayo, a distance of 145 miles, and the first section of the further exten- 
sion toward Ayacucho is now under way. While there is an uncompleted section to 
Cuzco, comprising aboiit 500 miles, it is gratifying to report that the sections between 
Cuzco and Lake Titicaca have been completed, and there is now a through line from 
Cuzco to Puno on the shore of the lake, 237 miles in length. This is a direct link in 
the Pan American chain. In northern Peru provision has been made for extending 
the coast line from Chimbote to Recuay, a section of which will be an intercontinental 
link. 

Reference should also be made to the favorable situation of the Peruvian projects 
for joining the river systems tributary to the Amazon on the eastern slope of the Andes 
by railway lines. The construction of such lines is encouraged by the building of the 
main trunk which on its part will be served by them as feeders. Surveys which look 
to reaching Iquitos, on the Amazon, from Paita, on the Pacific, through the lowest 
depression in the Andes, are now being made and there is an encouraging prospect 
that they will result in the early building of this line. The surveys for the line from 
Cerro de Pasco to the River Ucayali have also been completed, and that project is con- 
sidered to be in a favorable position. 

Ferry transportation from Puno across Lake Titicaca, 102 miles, may be regarded as 
a water link in the Pan American system. This means of transportation is already 
in operation. The Bolivian section of the Pan American Railway may be said to 
begin at the port of Guaqui on the banks of Lake Titicaca. The Bolivian Government, 
by utilizing the financial resources at its command, has been able to forward its policy 
of railway construction very satisfactorily. The Pan American trunk line as a base 
from Lake Titicaca to the southern border has been the cardinal feature of this policy. 
In pursuance of it sections have been completed between Guaqui and Uyuni, a 'dis- 
tance of 363 miles. This is a direct link in the main intercontinental location. There 
remain to be constructed only 177 miles from Uyuni to the southern border, and the 
plans of the Bolivian Government which are now being carried out insure the comple- 
tion of this section at a reasonably early date. In the meantime other important rail- 
way building is going on in the way of branches, the most important of wliich is from 
the trunk to the Potosi mining region. This will secure a valuable traffic to the main 
system . 

Bolivia is further interested in the construction of a direct line from the Pacific port 
of Arica to La Paz, which will form a junction with the Pan American main line. 
This work has been undertaken by the Chilean Government under a treaty arrange- 
ment with Bolivia. The contracts were let in 1909 and the work of construction is 
now going on. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 257 

Chile's interest in the Pan American Railway, from its geographical location, is 
the connection with the main trunk system by extensions and branch lines. The 
Longitudinal Railway, to which the Government is committed as a national policy, 
may be considered as a branch or extension alono; the intercontinental location, since 
it will be joined with the Pan American trunk Tine by any one of several railways 
across the Andes. The surveys for the Longitudinal Line have been completed, 
contracts have been let for various sections, and the work of construction has been 
begun on these sections. The Longitudinal Railway in time undoubtedly will reach 
from the northern border of Chile to the far south. 

The opening of the Trans-Andine Railway tunnel to passenger and freight traffic 
is another result of Chile's railway policy. Since its completion the Chilean railways 
are joined with those of the Argentine Republic and are thus also connected with the 
southern part of the general Pan American system. 

The progress of the Argentine Republic in railway construction has been so rapid 
that the Government was able to announce to the world two years ago that its con- 
tribution to the Pan American Railway plan was finished, since its lines were com- 
pleted from Buenos Ayres to Quiaca on the southern border of Bolivia, a distance of 
1,060 miles. The importance of the extension of the Argentine lines to future com- 
merce is unquestioned. "UTien the Bolivian links are completed it will mean a large 
increase of traffic in both directions. 

Since the Argentine lines were prolonged north to the frontier of Bolivia and since 
the Bolivian links were completed to Uyuni, there now remains only the gap between 
Cuzco in Peru and Buenos Ayres of 177 miles out of a total distance of 1,940 miles, 
allowing for the water transport across Lake Titicaca. If the railway is to built along 
the shores of the lake this would require only 100 additional miles. 

SUMMARY. 

The general situation of the main trunk system as it stands to-day may be summed 
up as follows: The total length of the Pan American location from the Panama Canal 
Zone to Buenos Ayres is 5,064 miles; rail and water line in operation, 2,067 miles; 
lines under construction or to be constructed, 2,997 miles. 

The total distance from New York to Buenos Aires, following the actual construc- 
tion in Mexico and adopting the alternative Pan American survey in Central America 
by the shorter Atlantic coast route, is 10,116 miles. Of this 6,444 miles are in operation 
and 3,672 miles are either under construction or yet to be constructed to fill in the 
sections that are lacking. Eliminating the water links, it may be said that 3,700 
miles of railway are requisite. 

The present status of the Pan American project as indicated above is shown in tabu- 
lated form as follows: 




Mileage. 



To be 
built. 



New York to Mexico City 

Mexico City to northern border of Guatemala 

Northern border of Guatemala to Panama Canal Zone. 

Canal Zone to Puno on Lake Titicaca 

Pimo to Guaquil, Bolivia (water transport) 

Guaquil to Quiaca, Argentine Republic 

Quiaca to Buenos .\.ires 



3,026 
843 
508 
542 
102 
363 

1,060 



675 
2,820 



177 



Total. 



6,444 



3,672 



Total Pan American Une, New York to Buenos Aires '. 10, 116 

The intercontinental survey made under the direction of the commission created 
by the First Pan American Conference has for many years been the basis of the Pan 
American Railway project. Its results were very beneficial and are still of much 
value. Some of the locations indicated have been followed in actual railway con- 
struction while other sections which were not surveyed have been built. In view 
of the utility of the survey as a pioneer investigation, and of the information it afforded, 
a review of the situation in 1910, based on that survey, by a competent engineer officer 
is valuable. This is afforded in the table prepared by Gen. George W. Davis, member 
of the committee, from the records of the intercontinental survey, showdng the dis- 
tances between the two capitals, Washington and Buenos Aires. It follows the Pan 

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258 FOUETH INTEENATIONAL CONFEREES CE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

American location along the Pacific coast in Central Ameria, which, as has been 
explained, makes the total distance somewhat longer. The whole situation is ex- 
hibited in a bird's-eye view as follows: 

PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY — SITUATION, 1910. 
[Compiled by Gen. George W. Davis.] 



Subdivisions. 



Mileage. 



Now con- I To be con- 
structed, structed. 




Washington to Mexican frontier 

Mexican frontier to Tehuan tepee 

Tehuan tepee to Guatemalan frontier. 



Washington to Guatemalan frontier. 



Guatemalan frontier to Santa Maria. 

Santa Maria to Haehadura 

Haehadura to Acajutla 

Acajutla to San Salvador 

San Salvador to San Vicente 

San Vicente to San Miguel 

San Miguel to Guascorin 

Guascorin to Rio Negro 

Hio Negro to Chinandega 

Chlnandega to Granada 

Granada to Pena Blanca 

Pena Blanca to Liberia 

Liberia to Rio Savegre 

Rio Savegre to Golfito 

Goiato to David 

David to Panama 



Total, Central America 

Total, Washington to Panama. . 



Panama to Yavisa 

Yavisa to Rio Sucio 

Bio Sucio to Rio Caramata. . . 

Bio Caramata to Call 

Call to Carchi 

Carchi to Quito 

Quito to Alausi 

Alausl to Cuenca 

Cnenca to Canchis 

Canchis to Cerro del Pasco . . . 
Cerro del Pasco to Huancayo. 
Huancayo to Cuzco 



Total, Pan American survey. South America . 
Total, Washington to Cuzco 



Cuczo toPuflo 

Puflo to Desaguadero 

Desaguadero to Uyuni 

Uyuni to Quiaca 

Qudaca to Tucuman 

Tncuman to Buenos Aires. 



Other surveys, South America 

Total, Washington to Buenos Aires. 



277.3 



4,046.3 



160 



145 



305 



4, 351. 3 



237 
'363" 



343.9 

717.7 



1, 661. 6 



6, 012. 9 



1, 099. 3 



1, 099. 3 



172.7 

105 

198.6 

213.5 

332 

159 



87 
252 
779 



521 



2,819.8 



3, 919. 1 



102.5 

"m" 



279.5 



r£sum£ 

Washington to Buenos Aires: Miles. 

Constructed 6,012.9 

To be constructed 4, 198. 6 

Total 10,211.5 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFKKRNCE OF AMERICAN STATES, 259 
BRANCH AND OTHER SYSTEMS. 

lu connection with the Pan American Railway attention must also be given to 
collateral projects, some of which would serve as branch connections and some aa 
independent systems. The Republic of Uruguay has contracted for upward of 500 
miles and has given important concessions, and steps have been taken to insure 
complete railway communication with the Brazilian lines. The construction of the 
Pan American Transcontinental, 376 miles, from the Brazilian border at San Luis to 
Colonia on the River Plate opposite Buenos Aires, is apparently certain. With the 
completion of the lines in southern Brazil, which is also assured, and the junction of 
the railways in northern Brazil there will be in existence a transcontinental railway 
which will afford through railway communication from Pernambuco, on the Atlantic, 
via Rio de Janeiro, to Valparaiso on the Pacific. Another through connection will 
be obtained by gaining the northern extension from Montevideo with the Brazilian 
lines at Rivera. The proposed international bridge across the Cuareim River will 
join the Uruguayan railways with the Brazilian lines at the northwest extremity. 
The steps toward the realization of these plans are another evidence of the activity of 
railway construction in South America, all of which are based on the certainty of 
traffic from the development of the resources of the regions which are to be given 
railway facilities. 

Mention has been made of the early completion of the sections in southern Brazil 
which will join the Brazilian railway systems with those of Uruguay. This, however, 
is only one of the many railway enterprises which are progressing in Brazil. Un- 
doubtedly the most important of these is the construction, under the dirfection of the 
Government, of the Madeira-Mamore line around the Falls of San Antonio. The 
value of this_ railway in opening up the commerce of a great section of the interior of 
South America, by means of the river Amazon and its tributaries, has been well 
understood, butto carry the project into effect has been extrert\.ely difficult. The 
actual construction now going on, however, makes it sure that the enterprise will be 
carried through, and the committee is informed that within two years it is hoped to 
have the entire line, 300 miles in length, completed. This will be of very great 
benefit to the commerce, not only of the region directly served, but of the whole world. 

The committee is informed that railway construction in Paraguay is also proceeding, 
so thatthat country will be given closer communication with the railway systems of 
Argentina and Uruguay. The extension of the existing line which runs from Asuncion 
to Pirapo, 153 miles to Encarnacion, on the river Parana, will close up an important 
section. The prolongation will be finished in two years. The building of a line 
to Posados is a further step in establishing railway intercommunication which is 
essential to the utilization of the resources of Paraguay. The contract authorized by 
the Argentine Government to extend existing lines so as to join Corrientes with Asun- 
cion and thus afford through communication between Buenos Aires and the capital 
of Paraguay insures an important link in intercontinentaL railway connection. 

The committee is informed that several important enterprises in Venezuela, which 
in the past have received favorable consideration, are now in a position to obtain the 
capital necessary to carry them out. The Orinoco River furnishes means of commu- 
nication in the southern part of the republic, but in the northern part railways are 
necessary in order to reach the ports of the coast. A large and profitable traffic awaits 
the construction of such railways. 

In order to show the relation of the Pan American project to the various countries 
that will be benefited by it, the committee has had a map prepared which is annexed 
to the report. This map shows the transportation routes by railway, river and ocean. 
It is designed to present the general Pan American Railway location in its geographical 
relation to the different republics and also to indicate the river navigation which is 
of great importance in the commerce of South America. Railway and river traffic on 
that continent act aa mutual feeders to each other. 

The map has been prepared from the latest available sources, but the indication of 
boundaries is only tentative and is not to be understood as more than a general line 
to designate the relative position of the different countries. 

CONCLUSION. 

In previous reports the committee has taken occasion to recall the declaration of 
distinguished statesmen of the United States favoring the Pan American project. 
Among those who so declared themselves were James G. Blaine, Presidents Harrison 
and Roosevelt and Secretary Root. It is gratifying to add to these expressions other 



260 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

declarations. President Taft, in a letter to the chairman under date of January 13, 
1910, wrote as follows: 

"I am very much in favor of the construction of the Pan American Railway, and 
hope for practical results from the conference soon to be held at Buenos Aires in regard 
to the matter." 

Secretary Knox also wrote the chairman: 

"I am in hearty sympathy with the Pan American project, and will be glad to give 
it such assistance as I can. Each step toward its realization will not only directly 
increase trade between adjacent American countries but will also increase mutusQ 
acquaintance and knowledge, and the interweaving of interests, which is the surest 
foundation of commercial development in each country and of good international 
understanding among them all." 

The chairman of your committee, since the First Pan American Conference in 1889, 
has been a member of the several committees on the Pan American Railway resulting 
therefrom and has followed closely the prospects of the project. In his advocacy of 
the subject he has discussed the matter many times with men of more or less financial 
ability and railroad experience. He is glad to say that there is a growing interest and 
somewhat positive disposition on the part of men of prominence in the business world 
to more seriously consider the enterprise, not only from the standpoint of a great public 
work, but from the belief that it presents an opportunity for a reasonably safe and 
profitable investment. 

The indications now are that the time is drawing near when men of large affairs, 
capable of financing such a project, will undertake the building to completion of the 
Pan American Railway. Within fom- years it is promised that the oceans will be 
joined at Panama. If the present favorable indications have not been misjudged, an 
all-rail route should join Panama with Mexico and Washington by 1915, and with 
Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Rio de Janeiro a few years later. 

Respectfully submitted . 

H. G. Davis, 
Chairvian Permanent Pan American Railway Committee. 



APPENDIX HH 



BEPORT OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE, STEAMSHIP SERVICE. 

Committee No. 6 unanimously submits the following preamble and resolutions and 
recommends their adoption: 

"Whereas frequent, regular, and swift steamship service, under the flags of the 
American states, is required for the extension of trade, the convenience of commerce, 
and the maintenance of friendly intercourse. 

"But far more important is the power to regulate water-borne freight rates between 
the American republics. Without such power control through combines and con- 
ferences wholly outside the influence of such states might command both their trade 
and transportation. 

"Besolved (1) Direct commerce being subject to joint regulation by the states carry- 
ing on such trade should be established at the earliest opportunity. 

"(2) It is recommended that the states represented at this conference should con- 
clude conventions among themselves providing for direct and adequate steamship 
service; the vessels to be built of the highest speed and largest size consistent with, 
economical commercial service. 

" (3) It is recommended that in all cases where one or more of the states represented 
at this conference shall establish, through state initiative, a line or lines of steamers 
to one or more of the states; that such vessels shall enjoy all the privileges at ports of 
call that are accorded to vessels flying the flag or flags of such ports. 

" (4) That in future no rebating railway privileges shall be granted by any railways, 
whether private or government controlled, which shall not be granted to vessels enter- 
ing and clearing the ports of such states running in direct trade from other states repre- 
sented at this conference. 

"(5) To recommend to the states represented at this conference a study of thei 
conditions and means by which reciprocal liberty of commerce may be established 
in the coasting trade of the American republics and that the result of such study be 
laid before the next American conference. 

" (6) To recommend that states now having contracts in force providing for optional 
steamship commimication with ports of other countries of America demand obliga- 
tory and rapid service with such ports. 

"(7) To recommend the establishment of connecting lines between such ports as 
have no American steamship service in order that there may be a continuous, un- 
broken connection from north to south on both coasts. Pacific and Atlantic, including 
the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and by governmental action induce all con- 
necting links to cooperate in such manner as to avoid loss of time and intermittent 
handling of freight, mail, and passengers. 

"(8) To recommend that in all cases in which vessels proceed in one direction 
only from the ports of one American state to another, that reciprocal measures shall 
be taken to provide return cargoes warranting return service. 

. "(9) In view of the immense importance to the development of steamship lines of 
factors contributing to facility and permanence of flourishing trade conditions, it is 
recommended that direct banking and cable service be established and that a common 
system of weights and measures be adopted." 

In taking this action the committee has gone counter to the stock-in-trade argu- 
ment that the people and the capital of the states of America are better employed 
in developing their own internal resources and that the commodities of trade should 
be carried by those already possessing and controlling the means of ocean commerce. 
While this argument passes current when not inquired into, it needs only a knowl- 
edge of the strategy of trade to show its sophistry. 

If we suffer our various products to be interchanged solely through the medium of 
transportation systems foreign to our control, such systems will be able, after por- 
tioning out our trade to their self-interest, to inflict inferior service at disadvantageous 
rates. 

The commerce now carried on between the nations of the American Hemisphere 
is increasing rapidly and with such increase there is forming an ever-strengthening 
control of its carriage by ships of another hemisphere. 

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262 FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFEEENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

With such increase unchecked there will in time be built up a system powerful 
enough to replace competition by dictation. With buying, selling, banking, insur- 
ance, and transportation developed to a degree that defies successful or possible 
exercise of such factors of commerce by ourselves, we shall be reduced to the parts 
of simple consumers and producers, giving of our labor and our resources to enrich 
alien peoples. In many cases the disposition and the price received by the pro- 
ducer are fixed by the carrier, so essentially necessary are trade connections and 
distributive agencies to the great maritime fleets of the present day, and such powers 
are of course used when possible to advance the material interests of their own coun- 
tries. While delay too long will be fatal and the oceans may be parceled out to 
spheres of influence, and delay results in niaking the effort to free ourselves from 
foreign tribute less and less likely of succescjiul accomplishment. As more and more 
is received from interchange with one another, the cost of transportation upon what 
is carried should decrease. So long, however, as the pools, conferences, and monop- 
olies of another hemisphere control inter-American trade they can keep up the trans- 
portation charges in our trade as well as theirs and continue to throttle the flow of 
trade to our disadvantage. 

And with the same menace of helpless dependence uncontrolled by even a potential 
power to compete on our part, even national policies may be subject to foreign dic- 
tation. 

We must not be considered as taking a position antagonistic to the countries of the 
ships of Europe, for we welcome fair competition and rely upon the enterprises and 
activity of our people for our share. We do desire, however, such means of regu- 
lating trade that it may not bear toll charges radically out of proportion to actual cost. 

It must not be assumed, however, that in saying this we admit that the present serv- 
ice is satisfactory or commensurate with trade requirements, for it is not. 

The American nations are meeting here to take measures looking to their common 
welfare and material prosperity. 

No matter with what hesitation or distrust policies yet unworked out may be viewed, 
the fact remains that in the long run what benefits one will benefit all. If great fleets 
can be built and grow constantly in size and profit earning on the trade which we 
furnish, no valid argument can be advanced to prove that we can not turn the vast 
sums now pouring into foreign coffers to the enrichment of our own peoples. 

It is possible for us, both severally and in cooperation, to insure our independence 
in all the essentials of national greatness, of which, under existing conditions of world 
development and cooperation, transportation on the oceans is the greatest. 

The need of vessels flying the flags of America in the commerce of this hemisphere 
is generally admitted, and much has been done already in this direction by various 
republics in the inauguration of mail and passenger lines. 

But vessels numerous enough to give even a weekly service of fast steamers to the 
ports of South America would not be sufficient to meet the cargo demand of the near 
future. 

Hence while we may feel assm-ed that individual national enterprise will establish 
the much-needed mail connections, our problem is to see whether there is any joint 
action possible that by developing a preference for vessels carrying the flags of the 
American states will create a demand for such vessels in our general interchange of 
commodities, for it is upon such a demand that we must rely for a healthy and flour- 
ishing growth. 

We need not point out the great advantage in national ownership of sea-going vessels 
in the encouragement and domestication of the mechanical arts, in supplying a 
nursery of naval strength, in safeguarding the balance of commerce, and in developing 
and extending the commerce' of the flag. 

So in om* first resolution we recommend the establishment of direct lines of ocean 
steamers, subject to regulation by interested states. 

That there may be such control and regulations as will encom-age reciprocal com- 
merce, it is recommended that states carrying on direct trade, conclude conventions 
to the end that such commerce may be assured of the sympathy and direct practical 
regulation of the Governments interested. 

The best work is done with the best of tools, and it is essential that if such tools of 
commerce as ships are to compete with the ships of others, they should be of the most 
up-to-date character and equipment. 

If nations are to establish lines of direct communication, it is essential that handi- 
caps of special privileges to existing lines should be removed or equalized. 

One of the most serious obstacles to the success of new steamship lines would be to 
find that vessels of a flag foreign to the nations exchanging commodities received 
special concessions from the railroads by which they could rebate on through ship- 
ments and so be in a position to drive trade away from the new lines and so render 
hopeless any regulation of commerce through fair competition. 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 263 

As the trade relations between the American states become progressively more inti- 
mate, trammels upon trade will gradually disappear and there may come a time when 
the coasting trade of all America will be open to vessels of domestic build and owner- 
ship. 

The problems of reciprocal liberty of the coasting trade as affected by contraband 
goods and emigration at small ports, existing laws and regulations, the limitations due 
to treaties with other countries and concessions, are complicated and require much 
study for their solution, so it is recommended that this important question receive 
from the Governments of America the attention it requires. 

It is but natural that lines, unless compelled to do otherwise, should slight ports 
where trade languishes, in favor of ports where the opportunities for profit are for 
the moment greater. But when nations in furtherance of a policy of trade extension 
establish lines that are intended to furnish connections, they should insist that trade 
engagements should be carried out and ports that have a right to proper service should 
not be discriminated against. A recommendation to this effect is submitted. 

In contemplating the splendid conception of a Pan American Railroad, we must 
not lose sight of water communication. While great through lines of steamship com- 
munication are essential, we must bear in mind the fact that local traffic, too, is of 
supreme value and, in many cases, indispensable for feeding the larger ports. So with 
a view to securing an unbroken chain of steamship service north and south on both 
the east and west coasts, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, it is recom- 
mended that lines be established to supply the missing links, and further, that inter- 
mittent service may be avoided, it is suggested that all connecting links be required 
to cooperate in arriving and departing so as to avoid intermittent handling of freight, 
mail, and passengers. 

There are cases where vessels touch at American ports on northbound voyages, but 
go on to Europe and return to the South without calling on the return voyage. Careful 
study of reciprocal possibilities should be made in such cases and every effort exhausted 
to provide a return cargo, warranting a call on the way back. 

Since the committee's duty was to inquire into the means for securing lines of steam- 
ers, it is but natural that cognizance should be taken of such factors as -will secure that 
permanence in trade conditions that will warrant initial expenditure and insure their 
profitable employment. Demand for American bottoms to provide for progressive 
betterment must be based on stable business conditions. For this reason the com- 
mittee feels compelled to call attention to the need in this connection of direct bank- 
ing and cable service and a common system of weights and measures. 

Owing to the many different forms of encouragement used, your committee has not 
felt justified in recommending specific means for starting new mail lines. But a study 
of trade conditions holding in the various states has shown numerous wise and com- 
mendable instances of Government encouragement based upon that patriotic states- 
manship and foresight that strengthen for the state that great pillar of national great- 
ness and material prosperity — ocean transportation. 

Referring to my own country, what I have seen has convinced me that there should 
be in the maritime policy of the United States one paramount principle, namely: 

That the vessels running from the ports of the United States of America to the ports 
of other American states, should be at least equal in comfort and convenience to those 
from any port in Europe and of such speed that duration of voyages under analogous 
conditions shall be less from the ports of the United States than from the great com- 
mercial ports of Europe. 

And now before ending this analysis of committee suggestions, let me say a personal 
word. Meeting and knowing one another here has brought us close together — ^visit- 
ing and knowing one another's countries will bring our countries closer together. 

A visit to the United States would quickly demonstrate that many of the alleged 
obstacles to closer commercial relations are imaginary or subject to simple adjustment 
to accord with the business methods of the countries to the South. 

The steamship connections will soon be in existence. In the meantime and in 
preparation for more intimate relations, tell your people to come to our country where 
a sincere welcome awaits them, and we shall tell our people to go to yours. 

I have the honor, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, to submit the report of the 
sixth committee and recommend its adoption by the conference. 



APPENDIX II. 



REPORT OF THE SEVENTH COMMITTEE, CONSULAR DOCUMENTS. 

Mr. President: Your seventh committee which has had under consideration the 
eighth topic of the program of the conference, providing for the consideration of 
measures that will lead to uniformity among the American republics in consular docu- 
ments and the technical requirements of customs regulations, and also in census and 
commercial statistics, in the fulfillment of the duty imposed upon it, has the honor to 
submit the following report: 

I. CONSULAR DOCUMENTS. 

Previous international American conferences have been unanimous in considering 
that unification and simplification of consular documents and of customs administra- 
tion and commercial nomenclature of the countries of America would facilitate com- 
mercial operations among them and tend, for the same reason, to the development of 
their reciprocal commerce. 

This committee on considering the subject submitted to its investigation regrets 
that the resolution made by the international conference at Rio de Janeiro providing 
for the establishment in the Bureau of American Republics of a section of statistics, 
customs, and commerce to compile the customs laws of the republics of America, and 
to prepare a report on the matter intended to serve as a basis for investigations and tend 
to make more productive future deliberations on this subject has not been carried 
out. 

The committee has had at its disposal in the preparation of this work an interesting 
and well prepared report of the Argentine experts, Messrs. E. Weigel Munoz, and 
Liberio Ponce, concerning the means of giving uniformity to consular procedure in 
its relations to the documentation of shipments, a study presented by the delegate of 
Uruguay, Mr. Carlos M. de Pena, which contains very important observations on the 
subjects submitted to the examination of this committee, the various, extensive, and 
detailed memoranda concerning the same subject, presented by the delegate of the 
United States, Col. E. H. Crowder, and a report of the delegate of the United States of 
Brazil, Mr. Herculano de Freitas, concerning the issuance of various documents which 
should be presented to the consulate in conformity with the laws of Brazil, also an 
analysis made by counselor of the delegation of Chile, Mr. J. Phillipi, concerning com- 
mercial nomenclature as well as the suggestions contained in the report presented to 
the conference by the delegates of Venezuela, Messrs. Manuel Diaz Rodriguez and 
0. Zumeta. 

The committee submits to the fourth conference a series of recommendations which 
it has succeeded in formulating after a careful study of the foregoing data and the min- 
utes of preceding conferences. In regard to those subjects upon which it has not been 
in a position to pass final judgment because of their technical nature and the lack of 
antecedents and previous studies, the committee has thought best to indicate in a 
detailed and concrete form the investigations which should be made before the next 
conference convenes. For this reason it has outlined for the guidance of the Bureau 
of the American republics which is charged with the duty of making such studies a 
precise and definite programme which it should follow in carrying on its work. 

The committee has thought best to begin its work with an examination of the docu- 
ments which must be presented in order that merchandise may be passed through the 
customhoiise. The contents, form, and draft of such documents differ in several coun- 
tries, and these differences cause serious hindrance to international commerce. In 
the judgment of the committee this branch of the subject was one that deserved its 
most careful consideration, besides offering the most promising field for reaching con- 
clusions which would tend to remove obstacles which now stand in the way of the free 
movement of commerce — obstacles which exist more by reason of administrative routine 
in many cases than on account of any real and existing necessity. The most important 
of such documents are manifests, bills of lading, invoices, and certificates of origin. 

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FOURTH INTERlSrATIOISrAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 265 

The First Pan American Conference defined a ship's manifest as ''A marine docu- 
ment universally required of vessels arriving from foreign ports, and serving to deter- 
mine the cargo they carry, and in time of war to furnish evidence that they do not 
carry contraband goods." 

There is some diversity to be found in the legislation of the American nations con- 
cerning the purpose and nature of a manifest. Some merely require a general entry 
manifest which must contain a declaration of the entire cargo of the vessel, and which 
is usually prepared before the arrival of the vessel at a port. In such cases the con- 
sular certification is generally dispensed with as not being essential for the proper car- 
rying out of the object of the manifest. This circumstance doubtless caused the First 
International American Conference not to insist upon the certification of the manifests, 
since it considered such a proceeding unnecessary. 

Other countries require consular manifests which, in such cases, together with the 
bills of lading, serve as a means of guaranteeing that the cargoes coming from abroad 
arrive in their entirety at the ports of destination. This manifest is viseed in the 
port of shipment by the consul of the country to which the consignment is destined, 
comparison having been previously made of the manifest with the bills of lading. 
The unloading is afterwards effected' in conformity with these documents, so that if 
any packages should be missing the proper fine can be imposed upon the captain of 
the vessel, and if there are a greater number of packages than the documents call for 
these packages are confiscated, and the same is true if packages are found which differ 
from the statements of the manifest. In this way fraudulent and contraband dis- 
embai-king of goods and transshipment of goods during the voyage of the vessel are 
prevented. 

The committee appends to this report a form of consular manifest, the adoption of 
which in all the countries in which it serves the purpose above indicated is recom- 
mended by the committee. 

Bills of lading are evidences of the contract for marine transportation and, conse- 
quently, are evidences of the rights and obligations arising from this contract. 

Efforts have been made in international maritime conferences to adopt a uniform 
bill of lading for all the nations, unfortunately without success, but this committee 
has refrained from submitting such a form of bill of lading, since it considers that the 
nature of the subject requires that it be dealt with by a maritime congress in which 
the European countries should also be represented, since to-day the maritime fleeta 
of such countries form an important means of transportation for the commerce of the 
American nations. The practice regarding consular certification of bills of lading is 
also greatly lacking in uniformity. 

In the three countries which do not require a consular invoice the bill of lading 
serves to a certain extent the purposes of the invoice, and the process is rendered 
complete by the certificate of origin which supplies the data relative to the place of 
origin of the merchandise. 

According to the report of the Argentine experts there are 18 American countries 
that require consular invoices to prove the accm-acy of customhouse declaration, 
especially as regards the value of the merchandise, and on the other hand, as pre- 
viously stated, there are similarly three countries that do not require a consular 
invoice but merely the manifest of the cargo supplemented by the bill of lading, 
both of which must be Adseed by the consul. At a later point in this report when 
considering the question of consular invoices, the committee proposes the adoption 
of a form of invoice submitted by the Argentine experts which if it should be accepted 
by all the countries of America would render unnecessary for the purposes of customs 
administration a consular vise of the bills of lading. 

Even in those countries in which consular manifests are employed as a means of 
safeguarding shipments, the vise of the bills of lading might be omitted, in A'iew of 
the fact that such manifests contain a statement of the bills of lading with which the 
consul can make comparison, certifying their accuracy and stating the number of the 
bills of lading to which the manifest refers. 

For this reason the vis6 serves no useful purpose because what is set forth in the 
bills of lading must appear in the manifest with which the bills of lading are again 
compared at the customhouse of the port of destination. 

The vis6 of bills of lading, in countries where invoices must also be viseed has 
certain disadvantages, especially in ports of great commercial activity. Such dis- 
advantages are best appreciated, says the report of the Argentine experts, when one 
considers the work of a consul and of the customs authorities when they are con- 
fronted with the revision of a ship's papers when the steamer is one of from five to six 
thousand tons bmden. In such cases a ship's captain might submit a thousand 
bills of lading and the shippers another thousand invoices, to say nothing of the mani- 
fests of from 50 to 60 sheets each. 



266 FOUETH INTERKATIOXAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

The suppression of the consular vis4 of bills of lading, although opposed to the 
practice which some countries have followed for many years, would be, nevertheless, 
one of those distinct advances whose introduction would contribute in a very effica- 
cious manner toward facilitating the more rapid movement of international trade. 

Consular invoices are chiefly employed to meet the requirements of customhouse 
procedure and statistics. 

. Their relative importance depends upon the system by which in each country the 
value of the goods is fixed for the purposes of the payment of customs dues and for 
commercial statistics. In the United States of America the consular invoice is used 
as the means of determining the value of the goods, and on the amounts expressed 
therein, subject to revision in doubtful cases, the payment of the customs duties is 
based. In this system a declaration of the agent or shipper is required to the effect 
that the statement and prices are correct as stated in the invoice, this declaration 
being supported by another similar one of the consul representing the country to 
which the goods are consigned or shipped. 

Other republics of America, on the other hand, subject the goods, for the purpose of 
ascertaining their value as regards payment of customs dues, to a previous appraisement 
in accordance with a "schedule of values," which schedule fixes the price of each kind 
of merchandise in accordance with its class or quality. Such a system disregards the 
indication of values contained in the invoice, or only takes them into account in the 
case of goods not specified or appraised therein, that is to say, in those cases for which 
the "schedule of values'' has made no provision. 

The fundamental difference between the systems arises from the different degree of 
importance which in practice is attached to the declaration contained in the invoice 
with regard to the value and price of the goods. " To place reliance upon the original 
invoice that the shipper may submit," says the report that we have frequently cited, 
"is to give to the interested party the power to fix the amount of the duty, because of 
the well-known practice employed by export houses abroad of issuing a double set of 
invoices. It is to provide against this danger that certain countries have adopted the 
system of a "schedule of values." 

Nevertheless, no matter what system may be followed, this committee is of the 
opinion of the adoption in all the countries of America of a uniform model of invoice 
that may be employed in any port of the continent is entirely practicable and of real 
advantage to the commerce of this continent. 

The committee recommends the attached form prepared by the experts of the Argen- 
tine Republic, which includes all the necessary steps to be taken that such a document 
should contain. 

The committee does not suggest any definite form for setting forth the declaration 
of the seller, manufacturer, or agent, nor for that of the consular certificate, which 
should be stamped on the back of the invoice, because such declaration and certifica- 
tion should conform to the special legislation of each country. A blank space is there- 
fore left in the form recommended that may be filled in in accordance with the require- 
ments of said special legislation. 

The certificate of origin has for its object the fixing of the place of origin of the mer- 
chandise. As a rule it is only called for where the submission of the consular invoice 
is not required. In this latter case the submission of a document of this kind is super- 
fluous, which has caused the committee to recommend the suppression of the certificate 
of origin wherever the consular invoice, containing as it does all the data called for by 
the said certificate, is required. 

It would also be advantageous to secure a certain uniformity in the payment of the 
fees collected for consular certification of the documents above named. In. respect to 
the payment of such fees three systems are followed . There are some countries which 
demand a fixed charge for the certification of the invoice without regard to the value 
of the merchandise. There are others in which the fees are alwaj^s proportional to its 
value, whatever may be the amount thereof, and a third group which, starting with a 
fixed consular fee, adds thereto additional consular fees in proportion to the invoice 
value whenever this value exceeds a certain amount. 

The amount of the fees is bound to vary in accordance with the resources and the 
needs of each country; but it may well be said in behalf of those facilities which it is 
only proper to afford to commerce that consular fees should always be moderate and 
should be kept within reasonable limits. For this reason the committee has thought 
it advisable to prepare recommendations along the above-mentioned lines. 

Finally, there is a difficulty of which commerce frequently complains, the considera- 
tion of which should not be omitted in this report, and that is the difficulty arising 
as to the hoiu-s during which consulates remain open for the certification of documents. 
To cure this difficulty the committee recommends that each Government promulgate, 
or if already established make effective, regulations that fix such definite office hours 
for consuls as may facilitate to the best advantage of commerce the visaing of customs 



FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 267 

documents. This committee believes that the most practical method would be to 
recommend that consulates be kept open for the purpose of certifying customs docu- 
ments during the same hours that the customs offices of the country are kept open. 

In accordance with what is set forth in the body of this report the committee pre- 
sents to the conference the following project of a resolution: 

"consular documents. 

"The Fourth International Conference of American States, held at Buenoa Aires, 
resolves : 

"I. That the countries that require a general entry manifest do not require any 
consular certification of such manifest. 

"II. That the countries which have adopted the consular manifest of shipment 
adopt the form of manifest herewith appended. 

"III. That those countries that adopt the form of consular invoice suggested by 
this committee do not require a consular certification of the bills of lading. 

"IV. That the countries represented in the present conference adopt the form of 
consular invoice herewith appended. This form would have on the back only the 
headings under which the seller or agent would make their declarations and those 
headings under which the consular certificate would be made. The forms of certificate 
or declaration would be filled in under these headings according to the legal require- 
ments of each country, 

"V. That the countries which adopt the form of invoice herewith submitted do not 
require the "certificate of origin," the contents of which are included in said form of 
invoice. 

"VI. That consular fees should be moderate and should not constitute an indirect 
method of increasing customs receipts. It is believed that it is for the best interests 
of the international commerce of this continent that these fees, no matter what method 
is employed for their collection, be limited as far as possible to amounts necessary to 
cover the cost of maintaining the consular service. 

"VII. That the respective Governments of the countries represented iii this confer- 
ence shall instruct their consuls to keep open their offices for the viseing of consular 
documents diiring the same hours the said consular offices may be established. It is 
also urged that the Governments see that their consuls comply with such instructions." 

CONSULAR MANIFEST. 

Manifest of the cargo of [kind, flag, and name of vessel] Capt. N. N. of [so many] tons 
burden and having a crew of [so 7nany] persons, including the captain who makes the 
voyage from to [port of destination], consigned to 



Marks. 


Numbers. 


Quantity. 


Cases or 
barrels. 


Indication 
of contents. 


Weight or 

volume 
(consignor). 


Consignee 

(indicate 

whether bill 

of lading is 

in order). 


Total number 
of packages 
to each con- 
signee. 



















































































































































































I, N. N., captain of the aforesaid vessel, declare that I have not taken on board in 
this port any cargo other than above mentioned, except provisions for the vessel, and 
that during the voyage I shall make in writing any other declaration that should be 
added to those given in this manifest should the actual amount be greater or less, for 
the purpose of delivering it along with said manifest and the corresponding bill of 
lading upon the first customs examination that may be made aboard the vessel under 
my command in the port of destination. 

The consul of [place and date] certifies that this manifest in accordance with 

[such] bill of lading and [so many] certificates of commission is drawn up with all the 

declarations required by the customs regulations of without change, erasure, 

or interlineation. By reason of which I sign the present and offer the consular seal. 
[Place and date.] [Seal.] [Signature of consul.] 



268 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

CONSULAR INVOICE. 

Date , 19.. 

Invoice of consignment 

by of 

to of 

and whose transportation will be made by 



Packages. 




Descrip- 
tion of 
goods. 


Weigh ts.i 


Prices. 


Origin or 
place of 
origin of 

merchan- 
dise. 


Consular 
remarks. 


Marks. 


Num- 
bers. 


Quan- 
tity. 


Pack- 
ing. 


1 
Gross. 1 Net. 


By 
umts. 


Total. 





















































































































































































































































Signature (of the seller, manufacturer, or authorized agent). 
• This cloumn may be omitted by the countries that require this information in the consular manifest. 

II. CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. 

The First International Conference of American States, aided by information and 
data placed at its disposal by experts, subjected to a careful study the general sub- 
ject of the simplification and unification of the customs and consular administration 
of the different American Republics, in so far as this subject might facilitate mer- 
cantile operations among them and tend to develop their mutual commerce. It 
adopted a series of general recommendations to improve the customs system then in 
force. 

The Second International Conference of American States, which was held in the 
City of Mexico, provided that within a year from the closing of the sessions of the 
conference, a customs congress, which should be composed of one or more delegates 
appointed by each Government, should meet in the city of New York. 

The inherently technical character of customs investigation was doubtless the 
reason that induced the conference of Mexico to provide for the holding of a customs 
congress composed of persons specially prepared in that branch of work, such as 
administrators or chiefs of customhouses, consuls, presidents or members of boards 
of trade, important merchants, etc. 

The customs congress met in New York in 1903, 29 delegates, representing 13 
American nations, participating therein, and continued the work of the first confer- 
ence, enlarging some of its recommendations and formulating others which signified 
new reforms. 

Some of the recommendations of the first conference and of the customs congress 
were in force in many of the American States, or were subsequently adopted, and 
form at the present time an integral part of its customs and consular administration. 
Others yet remain, still unadopted generally, which are of indisputable worth in 
facilitating commercial interchange among the nations of this continent and which 
could not be omitted from any plan of unification of the American customs and con- 
sular administration. With some modification they might be adopted by the fomTh 
conference for the purpose of being submitted to the republics represented therein 
for incorporation into the customs and consular administration of the same. 

This committee, therefore, proposes the following project of a resolution based on 
the recommendations of the First International Conference and of the customs con- 
gress of New York for adoption and confirmation by the fomTh conference: 

I. That when packages are unladen in a given port, which were destined for 
another, whether domestic or foreign, said packages may be reloaded without the 
imposition of any fine, provided that it shall be conclusively proved that their real 
destination was elsewhere . 



FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFEBENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 269 

II. In order to facilitate the prompt dispatch of vessels that instructions be issued 
to collectors of customs to authorize, on request of the interested parties, the prepara- 
tion of outward cargoes in advance of the arrival of the vessel, subject to necessary 
customs regulations. 

III. That regulations be issued by the several Governments to permit the loading 
and unloading of merchandise in the night, in such cases as conditions may allow 
and in the discretion of the proper authorities; the loading and unloading of vessel* 
on holidays and Sundays included, except national holidays, and the simultaneous 
loading and unloading of cargoes on and from the same vessel. 

IV. That facilities be given to international trathc of foreign merchandise through 
different countries, simplifying as much as possible the (customs) documentation 
that is necessary for such operation, taking at the same time all necessaiy precautions 
to prevent fraud. It is recommended that merchandise in transit over the ways of 
communication of any country shall not be subject to charge, only being obliged to 
pay for the services rendered by the adequate installations of the ports or of the 
roads traversed and of the service of supervision, and the same scale that merchandise 
pays for said services when intended for consumption in the country over whose 
territory the transit is made. It is understood that this exemption of charges is only 
proper in all such cases in which it may be compatible with the special circum- 
stances, the resom'ces, and the economic conditions of the country of transit. 

V. It is recommended to the customs administrations of the American countries to 
indicate, in case theii* advice is asked and a sample of any article of importation is 
sent, the classification which it should receive in the customs schedule or respective 
tariff of appraisement and the duties to which it is consequently subject. 

The customs congress was of the opinion that to go beyond the recommendations 
above indicated, it would be necessary to make certain preliminary studies which it 
intrusted to the Bureau of American Republics. 

The Third International Conference of American States likewise recognized the 
technical character of the work required to complete the unification and simplification 
of the customs and consular administration of the American countries. It stated its 
opinion that this work should preferably be intrusted to a single person and not to a 
committee whose responsibility would not be as direct, and it resolved to create in the 
Bureau of American Republics a section of commerce, customs, and statistics, in 
charge of a specialist, for the purpose of making a special study of the customs and 
consular laws and of the commercial statistics of the American republics, and sub- 
mitting to the governing board of the union of these republics in the shortest jjossible 
time (and in any case one year prior to the holding of the next international con- 
ference) a report which should contain the information necessary to obtain a definite 
decision as to the measures which might be adopted to bring to as final a conclusion as 
possible the work of simplifying the work of customs and consular admin stration of 
the countries of America. 

This resolution of the third conference has not been carried out. The necessity for 
its prompt execution is urgent, and this committee insists upon fulfilment of the reso- 
lution adopted at Rio de Janeiro of creating in the Bureau of American Republics a 
special section for customs, commercial, and statistical matters. 

This section shall, first of all, compile the laws and regulations concerning customs and 
consular procedure of the American countries and the provisions relative to the entry 
and dispatch of vessels. Such a work is not only indispensable in order to further 
studies concerning customs unification of these countries, but there should also be 
compiled, a commercial nomenclature bearing especially in mind the services that 
such a book would lend to commerce by furnishing the data that is needed on this 
class of subjects. The Bureau of American Republics has published an interesting 
compilation of all the constitutions of this hemisphere and of the laws on patents and 
trade-marks in force in America. 

Similarly to this work, the importance whereof it is needless to show, the Bureau of 
the American Republics could publish a well-arranged compilation of the laws, 
regulations, and other administrative provisions of each country of the American 
republics relative to its customs administration and consular documents. Such a 
compilation could serve the exporters of other countries as a source of information 
regarding the formalities that are required in declarations, invoices, manifests, 
policies, bills of lading, and other customs documents which they find necessary to use 
in their commercial relations. 

A practical means of accomplishing the above work would be to send an expert of 
recognized ability to visit the different republics to collect, in accordance with a well- 
considered program and systematic plan, the above-mentioned provisions of admin- 
istrative laws for the purpose of publishing in such form as would permit of easy con- 
sultation and comparison of the material collected. 

The variety of expression frequently used in international commerce of the nations 
of America to designate the same goods and the employment of different words in their 



270 FOUETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

customs tariffs and their schedules of values in the designation of identical articles, 
occasions to the commerce of oiu: countries difficulties and hinderances which the 
prior international conferences have desired to remove, recommending the adoption 
of a common nomenclature throughout the entire hemisphere, in accordance with 
which the import duties should be collected and the consular invoices, petitions of 
passage, and other customs documents made. 

The preparation of such a nomenclature, the employment of which should be pre- 
scribed for all the countries, with a view to rendering uniform their commercial 
language, offers in practice almost insurmountable difficulties, and has led this com- 
mittee to believe in the advantage of recommending in lieu thereof the preparation 
of a dictionary which should set out all the synonyms and different expressions used 
in this hemisphere to designate the same article. 

In order that this nomenclature may render even more important services, it ia 
recommended that there be noted after each the customs duties imposed thereon in 
the American countries and the classification corresponding to it in the schedule of 
values. 

Such a compilation would not only serve as a dictionary, but would, moreover, 
serve as a compendium of customs tariffs, which would enable importers and exporters, 
■customs agents and employees, and in general all persons who in any manner take 
part in commerce, to obtain promptly and surely information concerning the customs 
duties imposed on any article in any country of the hemisphere. 

In order to carry out the suggestions above set forth the committee recommends 
the adoption of the following resolution : 

"section commerce, customs, and statistics. 

"The Fourth International Union of American Republics, held at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

" I . The governing board of the Pan American Union is urged to create the section 
of commerce, customs, and statistics recommended by the international conference 
of Rio de Janeiro. This section shall send an expert in customs matters to the differ- 
ent American countries for the purpose of compiling customs and consular laws, 
regulations, and practice, which compilation shall be published in such form as to 
facilitate a comparative study of such matters and serve as a work of reference for 
international commerce. 

"II. The governing board of the Pan American Union shall send to the nations 
represented in this conference, one year prior to the date of the meeting of the next 
conference, a report upon the following matters: 

"1. Charges to which navigation is subject in the ports of the American countries. 

"2. Documents which must accompany the petitions presented to the custom- 
house for the dispatch of merchandise; the form and requirements of these petitions 
and the practicability of adopting a form common to all. 

"3. A system of appraisement of merchandise for the payment of customs duties 
and the publication of the commercial statistics of America, together with the advan- 
tages and disadvantages of the different systems. 

"4. Organization of customs offices and procedure in customs administration. 

"5. Such other measures as might be proposed for the purpose of rendering uniform 
the customs and consular administration of the American republics. 

"III. The Pan American Union is urged to prepare a nomenclature of the different 
expressions and synonyms employed in the countries of America to designate the 
same articles and products with their English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese 
equivalents. In this compilation there should be set forth after each article in the 
form that the Pan American Union may deem most suitable the customs duties 
imposed thereon in the different republics of the hemisphere and the classification 
which it may have received in the schedule of values." 

In order to prepare this compilation, it is recommended that the Pan American 
committee in each republic should formulate and communicate to the Union of the 
American Republics the list of the articles, the designation whereof may have in the 
respective country a special signification or one not in general use in America, with 
their equivalents in Spanish, if there be such, including also these data appropriate 
to be furnished in each case. The section of customs, commerce, and statistics of 
the imion shall coordinate from these data the above-mentioned nomenclature. 

in. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 

For the purpose of statistics of foreign commerce, as an element indispensable for 
the drawing of conventions and agreements that contribute to the development of 
such commerce among the American countries, the interchange of their products, 



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and the cooperation of their capital and institutions of credit, it is of the greatest 
importance that the statistics in question be prepared in the most perfect and scien- 
tific manner possible, a certain degree of uniformity being assured among the different 
countries, so that the comparison of such statistics may be efficacious and exact. 

The memorandum presented by the delegation of Chile to the third international 
conference, and the treatise prepared by Prof. Jacobson and submitted to this commit- 
tee by Mr. Crowder, delegate of the United States, contain an interesting analysiis 
of the divergencies to be observed in the systems followed for the formation of com- 
mercial statistics and the difficulties arising out of this state of affairs. These works 
are confined to calling attention to the difficulties in question and supplying needful 
information to those intrusted with the task of studying the various commercial 
statistics of the continent. 

With the purpose of suggesting measures providing for the preparation of treatises 
that shall enable future conferences to arrive at some conclusion on the matter, this 
committee has thought proper to outline a plan of work for the Bureau of American 
Republics and, in pursuance of this object, has the honor of proposing to the confer- 
ence the following resolution : 

"commercial statistics. 

"The Fourth International Conference of American States, held at Buenos Aires, 
resolves : 

"That the section of commerce, customs, and statistics, directed or advised by per- 
sons of recognized skill in such matters, shall perform the following duties: • 

"(1) To compile and arrange all the data and antecedents needful for a precise 
knowledge and exact study of the processes observed in the American republics for 
the formation of their statistics of foreign commerce, both general and special; i. e., 
the classification, grouping, definition, and nomenclature used therein, the standard 
observed in determining the value of imports and exports, in fixing the country of 
origin of the commodities and the places from which they come, as well as in ascer- 
taining the destination of exports, and in determining monetary equivalents and 
other details that may conduce to the objects in question. 

"(2) To prepare, in view of the data and antecedents mentioned in the paragraph 
preceding, a comparative report on the statistics of the American republics, indicating 
the chief difficulties existing in the methods and processes employed therein. 

"(3) To draw up a program of bases which shall be submitted to the respective 
governments for their inspection and for the purpose of preparing such instructions 
as they may deem proper, which in due time may be given to their delegates to the 
Fifth Pan American Conference, or to a special congress assembled for that object if 
the conference were to be postponed, or if the governing board of the Pan American 
Union were to recommend the summoning of a special congress in view of the technical 
character of customs and statistical matters, whenever the investigations and reports 
intrusted to the section of commerce, customs, and statistics shall have been completed. 

"The program of bases to be prepared by the section of commerce, customs, and 
statistics shall deal with the following questions : (a) Uniform procedure in determin- 
ing values in international commerce, so as to enable statistics to be compared 
effectively and serve as a basis for the agreements or conventions relating to com- 
merce or navigation into which the said governments may enter; (6) identical or 
similar classification or grouping of commodities exported or imported, with the 
same object in view as that mentioned in the paragraph preceding; (c) adoption of 
the same standard for determining the places of origin of imports and destination of 
exports; (d) employment of the same commercial nomenclature, so far as the diversity 
in languages and products may permit; (e) the adoption of identical meanings for 
terms most commonly applied in commercial statistics; (/) the rigorous observance 
of the decimal metric system, so as to procure a possible uniformity in all that relates 
to weights and measures." 

IV. CENSUS. 

This committee on studying the portion of the eighth topic referring to the census 
and acknowledging the deficiency of data at the disposal of the committee relative 
to the periods of time, proceedings, and results of the census in the various coun- 
tries of America, as the honorable delegate of the United States also shows in the 
supplement to his memorandum, believes, nevertheless, that in a matter so essential 
for the appreciation of the material and moral development of peoples it is not 
difficult to reach a practical result. 

The committee believes that, in order to secure such result, the conference ought 
to recommend to the American governments that they establish the taking of a 
decennial census, employing the most efficacious means, according to the circum- 

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272 FOURTH INTEENATIONAL CONFEEENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

This committee, in fine, understands that it should be proposed, as the North 
American memorandum proposes, to recommend to the governments of the American 
states that, following out these ideas, they should take a general American census in 
December, 1920, in order to obtain, at a given time, which would be historical on 
our continent, a real or approximate knowledge of its population. 

The utility of an industrial census is equally obvious. It is of interest to America 
to know, at least approximately, the economic development of each of the countries 
for an exact appreciation of its stage of advancement and in order to stimulate the 
prosperity of the commercial interchange among all. Only an industrial censiis 
would furnish indispensable data. The committee is not in possession of data upon 
which to base its realization. It appears, therefore, that the conference should 
recommend to the countries forming the Pan American Union at Washington that 
they proceed to take a general industrial census and such other censuses as science 
and general practice counsel. 

The committee therefore presents to the conference the following project of a 
resolution : 

"census. 

"The Fourth International Conference of American States held in Buenos Aires 
resolves to recommend to the governments of the several states: 

"1. The taking of a decennial census of their population, taking into account the 
advance of science and technical procedure. 

"2. That steps be taken to effect a population census in all the American states in 
the year 1920, and, if possible, in a month to be recommended beforehand by the 
International American Union at Washington. 

"3. It is also recommended to the countries of the International American Union 
that, on the date suggested, steps be taken to effect a general industrial census and 
euch other censuses as science and practice counsel. 

"Buenos Aires, August 13, 1910." 



APPENDIX JJ 



REPORT OF THE EIGHTH COMMITTEE, SANITARY POLICE. 

The President or the Fourth International American Conference: 

Your eighth committee, appointed to consider the ninth topic of the program — 
sanitary police — has the honor to sta,te its opinion in the following terms: 

A few months ago there met at San Jos^, Costa Rica, the Fourth International 
Sanitary Conference of the American Republics, instituted by the Second Pan 
American Conference of Mexico of 1902. In this conference of San Jose, Costa Rica, 
as in the previous ones of Mexico and Washington, the original convention, which is 
a true transcript of the convention of Paris, has been made more perfect. 

In these gatherings, composed of the best known specialists in the matter of hygiene, 
more specific measures have been advised in order to prevent the development of 
diseases and in order to promote the betterment of the sanitary conditions of cities. 

Among the recommendations of the sanitary conference of Costa Rica, the sixth 
appears regarding the interpretation of Article IX of the convention of Washington. 
The committee gave this question special and careful study, different opinions having 
been expressed within the committee itself concerning the meaning and scope of the 
article, and finally, upon the suggestion of the Argentine delegate, Senor Carlos Salas, 
it was agreed that it should be drawn in this form: 

"Art. IX. In order that a locality be considered free of contagion it will be neces- 
sary to furnish official proof satisfactory to both parties interested: 

"First. That there have been no deaths nor new cases of plague or cholera for five 
days after the isolation, death, or discharge of the last case of plague or cholera; in the 
case of yellow fever the period shall be 18 days, but each Government reserves the 
right to prolong this period against those countries where the measures for the isolation 
of cases, the destruction of mosquitoes, and the disinfection of foci are not observed. 

"Second. That all measures of disinfection have been applied, and that, in treating 
plague cases, there have been carried out all measures for the destruction of rats; and 
that in case of yellow fever the proper measures have been taken against mosquitoes." 

The committee is of opinion that it is desirable that the conclusions reached in the 
aforesaid conferences of experts should be reduced to conventions, and with this end 
in view the draft resolution submitted by the delegations of the United States and 
Cuba has been adhered to, adding the new draft of Article IX. 

There is annexed to this report the reservation which the delegate of Venezuela has 
believed proper to make with respect to the sixth recommendation of the sanitary 
conference of Costa Rica. 

The committee considering that — 

Whereas all the American republics have not adhered to the convention of Wash- 
ington; 

Whereas all the governments of the continent did not participate in the Third 
Sanitary Conference of Mexico and the fourth of Costa Rica; 

Whereas at these two conferences very useful recommendations were made regarding 
quarantine and prophylaxis and the improvement of hygienic conditions of the 
various ports; 

Whereas it is of the greatest importance to commerce and the welfare of all the 
republics that the convention of Washington and likewise the recommendations of 
the subsequent conferences be approved by all the nations; 

Whereas the interpretation given Article IX by the sanitary conference of Costa 
Rica has given rise to doubts as to its meaning and scope, the Fourth International 
American Conference proposes the following draft of resolution: 

(This resolution was passed without amendment. For text, see Appendix J.) 

The delegate from Venezuela, Senor Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, accepted the above- 
mentioned draft of the delegate of Argentina and insists upon the reservations made 

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274 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

by him concerning the sixth recommendation of the conference of Costa Rica, which 
are the following: 

"1. The delegation of Venezuela believes that because the majority of American 
states were not represented at the international sanitary conference of Costa Rica, 
it lacked authority, and, inasmuch as it was made up of hygienic experts, it had no 
jurisdiction to modify the political scope of the convention of Washington. 

"2. That the so-called interpretation of Article IX proposed by said conference 
might serve as an easy means to a state not only to disturb the commerce of another 
state, but also to intervene in its internal affairs under the pretext of sanitation. 

"3. That said interpretation checks the tendency manifested in the international 
American conferences of Mexico and Rio de Janeiro and in the sanitary conventions 
concluded between advanced nations to establish a uniform sanitary police, since 
Eiu*opean countries would not sign an interpretation applicable only to uncivilized 
countries or those subject to a foreign sovereignty. 

"4. Venezuela considers that the so-called interpretation vitiates the treaty, and 
as she considers most advisable to reject it, she adheres to the text of the convention 
of Washington." 



APPENDIX KKl 



REPOKT OF THE NINTH COMMITTEE, PATENTS OF INVENTION DRAW- 
INGS, AND INDUSTRIAL MODELS. 

Mr. President: The ninth committee, charged with the study of topic X, "Patents 
and trade-marks, alter havmg examined the reports submitted by the delegation of 
the United States of America and of Cuba and heard the remarks made by the honor- 
able members of the same, has prepared the accompanying draft of convention for the 
protection ot patents of invention, drawings, and industrial models, which it submits 
to the honorable conference,- recommending its adoption. 

It has been thought expedient not to include in the attached draft trade-marks 
which will be the subject of another convention, bearing in mind the differences 
between patents of invention, drawings, and industrial models, as well as the objec- 
tions made by several signatory nations, and especially the United States of America 
against approving the convention of Rio de Janeiro. In so doing the committee also 
bore m namd the example of the international American conference held in Monte- 
video m August, 1888, in which patents of invention, trade-marks, and industrial and 
literary property, each subject deserving different treatment, were studied separately 

On wording this draft of convention, special care was taken that it should fulfill the 
object desu-ed, and not antagonize the participating nations to the extent of impeding 
or making more difficult its ratification, because in that manner the great benefits 
which all of us expect when it goes into force, would be impossible. To that end the 
domestic legislation of the signatory nations, without omitting for that reason general 
principles which at the same time that they cover and protect the rights of inventors 
facilitate lor the future a more uniform and universal legislation in this respect 

The greater the culture attained in the world, and the deep necessity felt in binding 
together more and more the commercial relations among the different countries has 
caused the governments, actuated by motives of mutual expediency and universal 
justice, to occupy themselves with the holding of these international congresses in 
which the nations represented therein, without taking into account their importance 
and power, but only the juristic equality of each one of them as an independent and 
sovereign state, discuss and agree upon principles which guarantee and protect the 
ettorts of human genius without distinction of races or nationalities 
* in^n® treaties of Paris of 1883, of Montevideo of 1888, the additional act of Brussels 
of 1900— modifying the treaty of Paris— and in the Pan American conferences of 
Washington, Mexico, and Rio de Janeiro, specific measures for the protection of patents 
ot invention were studied; and m the last two conferences conventions were approved 
that were not ratified by all the American states, for the reasons contained in the 
reports submitted . Bearing this m mind, there has not been included in the draft the 
provisions which gave rise to valid objections, adopting instead some of the provisions 
ot the treaty ot Pans and the additional act of Brussels, to which the greater part of 
the nations here represented have adhered. 

As a question of principles in matters of legislation, the observation of former con- 
ventions m none of their precepts are recommended. On the contrary said conven- 
tions are replaced by the present one, which will become the only source of law for 
the signatory countries, if, as is to be hoped, it is ratified by all, considering the spirit 
of conciliation and harmony which has prevailed in its preparation. 

It IS to be noted that Dr. E. S. Zeballos, delegate of the Argentine Republic on 
discussing m general terms whether American treaties were made or not, said : ' 

'That he would have preferred a general oflace recommending that the American 
states adhere to the International Union of Berne for the protection of intellectual 
property in all its different aspects. Inasmuch as several American nations ab-eady 
form part of said union, and the juristic tendency of the world toward unification as 
tar as possible, is accentuated by the concurrence of the most powerful nations. 

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276 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

"The formation of different unions in the various continents might perhaps intro- 
duce difficulties among the independent states. The extraordinary commerce of 
all the countries of the New World with Eui'ope and the Orient presages the 
expediency of establishing universal definitions and the jui-istic effects on the subject. 

"Nevertheless, bearing in mind the interest shown by the delegations which com- 
pose the committee, in the sense of concluding inter-American conventions, the 
Argentine delegation will concur in this proposal, not overlooking the idea that pre- 
vails in adopting as bases the aforesaid conventions of Paris of 1883, of Berne of 1886, 
of Brussels of 1900, and others of the same union. In this manner we approach nearer 
the idea of universal unification of principles. On the other hand, the fact of having 
agreed to maintain in conflicting or unexpected cases the pro\dsions of the domestic 
laws also influenced in this deferential attitude the Argentine delegation." 

The other members of the committee manifested that they were agreeable to said 
views, inasmuch as they are not in conflict with the contents of this report. 

In fact, the ideal would be on this point as in many others that there should be 
only one legislation in all the civilized nations, but as it is not possible at the present 
time to go so far, because reality opposes it with the force of incontrovertible facts, it 
is well to state that the draft of the convention which is submitted to the conference 
tends to accentuate that desired unification without overlooking the domestic inter- 
ests of the American couii tries. 

(Signed by all the delegates of the committee.) 

(For the text of the draft of the convention, which was adopted without other than 
verbal changes, see Appendix J.) 



APPENDIX KK. 



REPORT OF THE NINTH COMMITTEE, PATENTS AND TRADE-MARKS 

Mr. President: The ninth committee, which had for its consideration the study of 
topic X, "Patents and trade-marks," has completed its work mth the attached draft 
of convention on trade-marks, which it submits to the conference, recommending ite 
adoption. 

On formulating it the committee has borne in mind the drafts submitted by the 
delegations of the United States of America and of Cuba and the remarks and amend- 
ments made by the delegates who compose the committee. It has also examined the 
convention of Paris of 1883, modified by the additional act of Brussels of 1900, the 
treaty of Montevideo of 1888, the arrangement of Madrid of 1891 on the international 
registration of trade-marks, and the agreements made in the Pan American conferences 
of Washington, Mexico, and Rio Janeiro, accepting so much as it has deemed proper 
and rejecting that which has given rise to conflict. 

It has especially endeavored that the accompanying draft should conform to the end 
sought, without disregard of the national interest of the American states or their 
domestic legislation, since it is too much to .expect their immediate unification, which 
must be the work of mutual agreement and of greater advancement in industrial 
legislation. 

This principle of justice and general expediency is maintained — that the registra- 
tion of a trade-mark in one of the signatory nations is equivalent to registration in each 
and every one of them, provided that the trade-mark does not conflict with domestic 
legislation or prejudice the rights of third persons. In this manner proper protection 
is given, without great expense or unjustifiable annoyances, to manufacturers and 
merchants acting in good faith or in consonance with national legislation and the rights 
of others who may desire to enforce them before courts of justice. 

All persons have been accorded the right to prosecute the falsification, imitation, or 
unauthorized use of a trade-mark registered in the country of his residence, this right 
being limited, in so far as concerns the false representation of the origin of a product, 
to the manufacturer or merchant of the locality or place falsely indicated, following 
in the principle established in the additional act of Brussels; and upon proof of any of 
the causes, which article 9 designates the right to petition the annulment of the 
registration of a trade-mark, before the competent judicial authorities of any of the 
States of the union is given. 

The two international bm-eaus of Havana and Rio de Janeii-o created by the third 
conference are preserved, without making necessary for their protection the deposit 
therein of the trade-marks registered in any of the signatory States; and their duties 
are enlarged in regard to other particulars, leaAdng to one side whatever should be the 
object of the internal rules, in order to make this convention, which will substitute 
those agreed upon in the former Pan American conferences clearer and more concise. 

The committee is confident that this convention will be ratified without delay by 
the Governments of the signatory nations when the harmony which has ruled during 
its drafting and the respect for domestic legislation which it inspii-es are considered, 
and therefore it has not believed it ad^^.sable to fix any term for its ratification which, 
moreover, would mean nothing unless the intention was to accept it as a common labor 
beneficial to all. 

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APPENDIX LL. 



REPORT OF THE TENTH COMMITTEE, LITERARY AND ARTISTIC 

PROPERTY, 

The undersigned tenth committee has carefully studied a draft of a convention on 
"Literary and artistic property" which might be accepted by all the countries of the 
continent. 

So as to attain the desired end, it has thought proper to take for the basis of the 
draft similarly signed conventions, especially in International Conferences, by the 
American States and by those of Europe, simplifying and changing the same as was 
deemed advisable or as circumstances required. 

At the Second International Conference of American States, there was signed on 
January 27, 1902, by all the countries of America in attendance, a treaty on the subject, 
conforming with the drafts presented by the delegations from Chile and Haiti. 

Both of these drafts were used in the preparation of the convention agreed to by the 
countries which took part in the South American Congress of Private International 
Law, held in Montevideo in 1899, and some of the provisions of the convention of 
Berne of 1886 creating the union for the protection of literary and artistic property 
were also adopted. 

The Third International Conference of American States, sitting in Rio de Janeiro, con- 
firmed by convention dated August 23, 1906, that of Mexico of 1902, but believed it 
advisable to join said treaty with that on patents of inventions, designs and industrial 
models, and trade-marks, so as to constitute for all these matters a "L^nion of American 
States." This union was to be made effective by means of two bureaus which, under 
the name of ' ' Bureaus of the international union for the protection of intellectual and 
industrial property," would be conducted in the city of Havana, and the other in that 
of Rio de Janeiro. Both bureaus would be in complete accord with each other and 
their purpose would be to centralize the registration of literary and artistic works, 
patents, trade-marks, etc., which might be registered in each of the signatory nations 
in accordance with the respective treaties and make their validity and recognition 
effective in all the other States. 

While this convention had a most praiseworthy purpose in view, nevertheless it was 
open to objection from a theoretic view and was difficult to carry out in practice. 

The present conference, in the appointment of separate committees for the study 
of literary and artistic property and that relating to industrial property, has thereby 
affirmed the wish that separate conventions on each one of these subjects be sub- 
scribed and that they be not treated together. 

In considering the first of these matters, the committee concluded that the estab- 
lishment of a union for the registration of copyrights would be complicated and with- 
out a useful purpose. 

It has been deemed more practicable, because of its being more logical and simple, 
to adopt the system stated in article 3 of the draft submitted by the delegation of 
Chile, according to which all citizens and aliens domiciled in any of the signatory 
countries, who obtains the recognition of his copyright in any of them, acquires, by 
this act alone, equal recognition in all the other countries; or, in other words, when a 
copyright has been obtained in one country the same becomes ipso jure effective in 
respect to the others, -without further proceedings. In this way the committee beheves 
that full protection is given to authors without interfering mth the other signatory 
countries. 

According to article 6, the extent and nature of the rights enjoyed bj- authors or 
their assigns are those which the laws of the respective countries declare, this enjoy- 
ment not to exceed the period granted in the country of origin. On this point, the 
draft reproduces the provision of article 5 of the convention of Mexico, which had been 
modified by article 7 of that of Rio de Janeiro, in a form which the committee has not 
considered it adequate for the purposes intended. 

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The committee has considered it advisable also to insert in the draft some of the 
provisions contained in the treaty on literary and artistic property subscribed in 
Berlin on November 15, 1908. 

In these are included the measures necessary to fill the voids noted in the regu- 
lations now required on account of the development of the cinematographs and 
of other means of reproducing literary and artistic works. 



APPENDIX MM 



REPORT OF THE ELEVENTH COMMITTEE, PECUNIARY CLAIMS. 

The committee which was charged with the duty of considering the advisability of 
confirming the treaty adopted by the second conference at Mexico extended by the 
third conference at Rio de Janeiro, on the subject of pecuniary claims, has the honor to 
present its report, in which are set forth the principles that have affected the prepara- 
tion of the new convention which is to take the place of that adopted by the previous 
conferences. 

The committee has the pleasure to state that, if the order of the articles of that con- 
vention has been modified, yet, far from having undergone any change in its real 
spirit, it has been confirmed, as truly interpreted in the third conference at Rio de 
Janeiro. 

Regarding Article I of that convention, the report of the delegates of all the nations 
who sent representatives to that conference, contains the following: 

" If it be established that all claims for losses and damages, brought against a state by 
the citizens of another, must be submitted to arbitration when they can not be adjusted 
through diplomatic channels, it is reasonable to presume that there are cases in which 
diplomatic intervention is justified. 

"The internal sovereignty of a state, an essential condition of its existence as an inde- 
pendent international power, plainly consists in the right it always has of regulating by 
its laws and judging by its tribunals the juridical acts which are consummated in its 
territory, except in cases where, for special reasons, of which the law of nations takes 
account, the question is converted into one of an international character. " 

Confirming the principles announced in this interpretation, the delegate of Brazil, 
Mr. Gastao da Cunha, one of the signers of that report and of the present one, made the 
following exposition of doctrine on the subject matter of the treaty, the approval of 
which was advised: 

"The state can not impose its authority in favor of its citizens having a claim, unless 
there should exist a violation of the duties imposed by international law. Upon such 
violation, there accrues to it, in its defense, immediately and directly, a right of its 
own, although it likewise defends, mediately and secondarily, the private right of its 
citizen. 

"When the alien believes himself to be prejudiced in his rights, which should be 
clearly defined and guaranteed by the legislation of each state, he should invoke only 
the protection of the laws and authorities to which he has submitted himsel by his 
voluntary act . 

"If this were not so, it would follow that, in favor of the alien, the laws might be 
violated ; it would amount to creating for him a privileged situation, as compared with 
citizens, incompatible with the national sovereignty. The tribunal which is pro- 
vided for in the article under discussion does not suppress the territorial jurisdiction. 
It will have power to act only in the cases in which it is shown that there has been a 
violation of the rules of conduct imposed upon states, under the sanction of inter- 
national law, toward citizens of other nationalities. These cases are defined by the 
doctrine accepted by the international society of civilized peoples, and are all 
embraced in the general formula of denial of justice. 

"With this understanding of the purposes of the project, the expression 'denial 
of justice' sljould be given the most liberal construction, causing it to embrace all 
cases where a state fails to furnish the guarantees which it ought to assure to all indi- 
vidual rights. The failure of guarantees does not arise solely from the judicial acts 
of a state. It results also from the act or omission of other public authorities, legisla- 
tive and administrative. When a state legislates in disregard of rights, or when, 
although they are recognized in its legislation, the administrative or judicial authori- 
ties fail to make them effective, in either of these cases the international responsibility 
of the state arises. In all those cases, inasmuch as it is understood that the laws and 

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the authorities do not assure to the fore^ner the necessary protection, there arises 
contempt for the human personality and disrespect for the sovereign personality of 
the other state, and, by consequence, a violation of duty of an international character, 
all of which constitutes for nations a denial of justice." 

Such are the principles, in the opinion of this committee, to which internatienal law 
subjects the conflict which may arise between the obligation by which the foreigner 
is bound to submit himself, like the citizen, to the jurisdiction of the state where he 
lives, and the obligation of protection with which all nations shield their citizens 
against every act oi arbitrary power or of force by which they may be oppressed in 
the same state. 

It is because the committee has believed that, in the principles of the law of nations, 
there is laid down with precision the solution of this class of conflicts, that it has sup- 
plemented Article I of the treaty of Mexico with the clause which obligates the tribunal 
to decide the questions submitted to it in accordance with the principles of inter- 
national law. 

Article I, thus supplemented, is made clearer and is precisely defined by Article II 
of the treaty hereby recommended, which provides that the high contracting parties 
agree to submit to the Permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague, if they do not 
prefer to constitute a special jurisdiction, all controversies which form the subject 
matter of the treaty. If a controversy arises between the high contracting parties as 
to whether there has been produced one of the cases covered by international law 
which authorizes diplomatic action, that controversy will have to be submitted to the 
arbitral tribunal, and considering its nature this will be a previous question, the solu- 
tion of which shall or shall not empower the arbitral tribunal to take cognizance of 
the merits of the case. 

The committee considers it proper, in confirmation of the ideas expressed, to recall 
the discussion which took place in the Argentine congress when the general arbitration 
treaty between Italy and Argentina was being considered, regarding the inclusion in 
clause 2 of Article I of the provision that when the matter in controversy is one which, 
according to the law of the land, should be submitted to the judicial authority, the 
contracting parties reserve to themselves the right not to submit the dispute to arbitral 
judgment, before the national jurisdiction shall have passed upon the matter defini- 
tively. 

In the course of the debate the deputy. Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, and the senator, 
Dr. Joaquin Z. Gonzalez, demonstrated how, from the international point of view, a 
decree given by a competent judge and which has the effect of res judicata within the 
country, may give rise to a claim on the part of the state to which the citizen, against 
whom the decree has been rendered, belongs, in the exceptional cases foreseen in the 
law of nations and which have been commented upon in the present report, said claim 
being the subject matter of arbitration from the point of \dew of diplomatic procedure 
as well as from that of the merits, if the first question of a preliminary character is 
decided in favor of the demanding state. 

In both reports, as the result of the opinions advanced in the debate, the interpre- 
tation was accepted which was set forth in an official note to the plenipotentiaries of 
Argentina, Drs. Saenz Pena, Drago, and Rodriguez Larreta, in which Dr. Guide 
Fusinata, delegate of the Italian Government, member of its Parliament, and signer 
of the Italian- Argentine treaty, declared as follows: 

"Paragraph 2 of Article I was added at the request of the Argentine delegation. 
The justice of the principle which it contains can not be doubted for a moment. ''i^Tien 
the laws of a country, in effect, confer upon the tribunals a competency to decide a 
definite question, a foreign state interested in the matter is not obliged to accept the 
decree of the said tribunals, if it believes that thej_ are not competent or that they 
have decided contrary to the principles of international law; but between civilized 
states, which have reciprocal confidence in their judicial organization, there should 
be admitted the presumption that the decisions of the tribunals conform to justice and 
that diplomatic action should not be initiated till the territorial judges have rendered 
their sentence. It is only when the decision of the court is contrary to international 
law that the diplomatic action should be resorted to, and in our case recourse to arbi- 
tration." 

At this point in the report, Mr. John Bassett Moore said: 

"That he refrains from entering into a discussion of the statements of general princi- 
ples embodied in the foregoing report, but deems it proper to observe that he does not 
consider it to be practicable to lay down in advance precise and unyielding formulas 
by which the question of a denial of justice may in every instance be determined. 
Still less does he believe it to be possible to treat this matter as a preliminary question 
which may be decided apart from the merits of the case, or to include in a general 
treaty of arbitration a clause to that effect. In the multitude of cases that have, 



282 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES. 

during the past hundred and twenty years, been disposed of by international arbitra- 
tion, the question of a denial of justice has arisen in many and in various forms that 
could not have been foreseen; nor can human intelligence forecast the forms in which 
it may arise hereafter. In the future, as in the past, this question will be disposed of 
by the amicable methods of diplomacy and arbitration, and in that spirit of mutual 
respect and conciliation which happily grows stronger among nations with the lapse 
of years." 

The other members of the committee declared that they accepted these declara- 
tions, since they considered that they were in no way inconsistent with what had 
been set forth in the report. 

The other provisions are of minor importance and hardly require any comment. 

The treaty sanctioned by the third conference at Rio de Janeiro foresaw the case 
where one or more of the contracting nations might not have adhered to the peace 
conference of The Hague, and did not permit their ratification of the convention on 
pecuniary claims till such adhesion should have been brought about. The govern- 
ments represented in this conference almost all have their delegates in the tribunal 
of the peace conference, and where they are not so represented they can at any moment 
be so, since they have, as it were, a vested right to such representation. The pro- 
vision mentioned is, therefore, not necessary in this convention, especially as, in 
default of submission to the tribunal of The Hague, the parties may constitute a 
special jiu-isdiction. The project of the treaty prepared by this committee also 
modifies that of Rio de Janeiro, inasmuch as no specific time is fixed for its duration. 
According to the new convention, its existence will be indefinite, with the qualifi- 
cation that, if any of the contracting States deems it to be convenient to release itself 
from the treaty, or to introduce modifications in it, it shall so advise the others, but 
shall not be released, except two years after the denunciation. 

The present project has also dealt with a difficulty which presented itself. The 
treaty of Mexico ends December 31, 1912. If before that date two or more nations 
should have ratified the treaty which this conference approves, they would for a time 
be subject to two conventions on pecuniary claims. 

The present project avoids this inconvenience by providing that, although it shall 
have been converted into an international law by two or more states before the 
expiration of the treaty of Mexico, it shall come into force only after that date. The 
convention of Mexico will, however, continue to govern disputes submitted to arbi- 
tration before its termination, even though the arbitral sentence be pronounced 
subsequently. 



APPENDIX NN 



REPORT OF THE TENTH COMMITTEE, INTERCHANGE OF UNIVERSITY 
PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS. 

Honorable Delegates: The undersigned tenth committee has given special 
consideration to topic XII of the program of the present conference which recom- 
mends the study of a plan for the interchange between the universities of the different 
countries of America of professors and students. 

By its very nature the subject is one of great importance not only from the scientific 
viewpoint but also because of its practical results. 

The political and civil institutions of the countries of this continent having been 
consolidated, it is proper for them now to develop, in conformity with then* kind and 
the national asphations, the resoiu'ces wherewith nature has so richly endowed them. 

In this work of progress there devolves upon the universities the noble task of 
assisting the action of the state, as also of forming and du-ecting public opinion, which 
exercises such a decisive influence over modern democracy. 

The interchange of professors and students in a manner that would give rise to b 
unity of views among them and strengthen the solidarity among all the countries of 
the continent would powerfully assist the mission of the universities of America to 
fulfill their mission. 

Moved by these ideas and intentions, and at the same time desirous of doing some- 
thing simple and practical, the committee has adopted, with some slight modifications, 
the project of interchange submitted to its consideration by the delegation of Chile, 
and that of scholai'ships submitted by the delegation of Costa Rica. 

In accordance with the attached draft resolution the interchange among universities 
should be so conducted that the professors should communicate their studies and 
investigations among themselves, principally those regarding problems of American 
interest, or those that relate to the conditions of one or more of the countries of America, 
especially to the one to which the professor may belong. 

The interchange of studies rests in its turn on the creation in each university of 
scholarships for students of other countries of the same continent with or without 
reciprocity. 

We are sure that this generous measure will luring beneficial results for university 
solidaritv . 

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REPORT OF THE FOURTEENTH COMMITTEE, GENERAL WELFARE. 

Honorable Members of the Conference : Your committee on general welfare 
has examined with interest the project of resolution presented by the delegation of 
Paraguay for approval to the Fourth International American Conference. 

Said project has an object — the establishment in the form of a recommendation to 
the Governments of the countries the necessity (1) of a general treaty on the extradition 
of criminals, the exchange of documents, certificate of identification, and the estab- 
lishment of a police for international safety; (2) the organization of commercial rela- 
tions between the banks of the various American countries; and (3) the diffusion of 
knowledge in the schools, colleges, and universities of America concerning the benefits 
which internal and external peace and good understanding with other nations produce. 

The proposed resolution is accompanied by an explanation in which the delegation 
of Paraguay lays the foundation for the measures whose necessity it urges. 

This committee regrets not to be able to take into consideration the draft, because 
the subjects to which it refers are not contained in the program adopted for the 
conference of Buenos Aires. It does not rest with the committee on general welfare, 
on the other hand, to take cognizance of the matters proposed, because they are related 
with subjects submitted to the study of other committees of this honorable body and 
are therefore matters which fall within their jiu*isdiction. 

This is all we have the honor to state to this honorable body concerning the afore- 
said proposition. 

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APPENDIX PP. 



REPORT OF THE TWELFTH COMMITTEE, FUTURE CONFERENCES. 

Committee XII, accepting the idea advanced by his excellency the delegate from 
Chile in regard to the authorization of the governing board of the Union of American 
Republics to fix the date and place for the holding of the Fifth International Con- 
ference of American States, has the honor to submit the following resolution to the 
conference. 

(For text of resolution, which was adopted without change, see Appendix BB.) 

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APPENDIX QQ. 



REPORT OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE, THE MANNER OF TENDERING 
THE THANKS OF THE CONFERENCE TO MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE. 

The second committee, charged with studying the topic relating to the form in 
which the conference should pay a tribute of homage to Mr. Andrew Carnegie for his 
generous gift of a sum destined to the erection of the edifice of the Bureau of American 
Republics, has the honor to report as follows: 

"The name of Mr. Andrew Carnegie is known and admired by all who aspire to a 
rule of universal peace through arbitration. The amounts with which he contributed 
to the building of the Palace of Justice at The Hague, the raising at his expense of 
the edifice which sheltered the Central American Court of Justice in the city of Car- 
tage, the timeliness with which he gave orders to bear the expense of the reconstruc- 
tion of that edifice destroyed by earthquake, and his persevering, uniform, and 
humane work in all the peace societies of Europe and America renders him worthy 
of the gratitude and admiration of mankind. 

"That the liberality with which he responded to the invitation of the Hon. 
Elihu Root, then Secretary of State of the United States, when the latter requested 
his cooperation for the erection in Washington of a building appropriate and adequate 
for the Union of the American Republics, to the erection whereof all the states of this 
continent had already contributed proportionately to their quotas, places said states 
anew and in an extraordinary manner under obligation to such a distinguished bene- 
factor, and requires that a special resolution be adopted, because only the highest 
and noblest humanitarian motives actuate its author. 

"The committee submits the follo\ving to this conference. " 

(Note. — For the text of the resolution see Appendix S, Avhich was adopted without 
change by the conference except in one particular, namely, that on the reverse side 
of the medal the committee proposed the words "He served the cause of humanity," 
whereas in the resolution adopted these words were changed to "Benefactor of 
humanity.") 

286 

O 



II^DEX. 



A. 

Page. 

Alcorta, Jos6 Figueroa, tribute to 250 

American International Scientific Congress at Buenos Aires, resolution concern- 
ing 236 

Appendices, list of 29 

Arbitration: 

Action on resolution concerning 99 

Mexican action on resolution recommending 83 

Argentine Republic: 

Delegation of '. 58 

Pan American Railway in 257, 258 

Third International Conference — 

Action on conventions of the 67 

Action on resolutions of the 67 

B. 

Berme;' onio, address of 48, 50 

Trib u ..e to 250 

Bolivia, Pan American Railway in 256, 257, 258 

Brazil: 

Delegation of 58 

Third International Conference — 

Action on conventions of the 68 

Action on resolutions of the 68 

bureau of American Republics: 

Action on resolution creating commercial section in the 99 

Actiou on resolution for new building for the 99 

Action on resolution for reorganization of the 99 

C Jean recommendation concerning 72 

C. 
Carnegie, Andrew: 

Resolution of recognition to 178 

Tribute to, report of committee concerning 178, 286 

Central America, Pan American Railway in 255, 258 

Census, report of committee on 271, 272 

Census-taking, resolution for uniformity in 218 

Chile: 

Bureau of American Republics, recommendation concerning 72 

Codification of international law — 

Proposed resolution concerning the 71 

Report concerning 70 

Commercial relations, report on 73 

Customs regulations, report on 74 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 257, 258 

Report on 75 

Pecuniary claims, report on 72 

Resol ution ol' sympathy for 249 

Third International Conference, action on conventions of the 70 

Codification of international law: 

Action on convention concerning 98 

Chilean resolution concerning 71 

74034— S. Doc. 744, 61-3 19 287 



288 INDEX. 

Coffee Congress: Page. 

Action on resolution concerning 100 

Report of committee on 251 

Resolution providing for a 152 

Colombia: 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 256, 258 

Recognition of the centennial of independence of 249 

Third International Conference, action on conventions of the 76 

Commerce, customs, and statistics section, report of committee on 270 

Commercial relations: 

Action on resolution relative to 100 

Chilean report on 73 

Mexican action on resolution for developing 85 

Commercial statistics: 

Resolution concerning the compilation of 212 

Report of committee on 270, 271 

Commission of jurists, resolution concerning a 98 

Committees: 

Apportionment of 147 

Personnel of 61 

Committees on — 

. Consular, customs, census, and commercial regulations (7) 63 

Copyrights (10) • 63 

Future conferences (12) 64 

General welfare (14) 64 

Independence of American Republics, commemoration of (2) 61 

Pan American Railway (5) , 62 

Patents and trade-marks (9) 63 

Pecuniary claims (11) 64 

Publications (13) 64 

Report of Director of Bureau of the American Republics (4) 62 

Rules and credentials (1) 61 

Sanitary police (8) 63 

Steamship communication (6) 62 

Third Conference, action on resolutions of the (3) 61 

Committees : 
Reports of — 

Carnegie, Andrew, tribute to 286 

Census. 271, 272 

Coffee Congress 251 

Commerce, customs and statistics section 270 

Commercial statistics 270, 271 

Consular documents 264 

Customs regulations 268 

Future conferences 285 

General welfare 284 

Interchange of university professors and students 283 

Literary and artistic property 278 

Pan American Railway 12, 253 

Report of permanent committee on 254 

Pan American Union. , 252 

Patents and trade-marks 277 

Patents, drawings, and industrial models 275, 277 

Pecuniary claims 280 

Sanitary police 273 

Steamship service 261 

Trade-marks 277 

Conference reports, recommendations concerning the 100 

Consular documents: 

Draft of resolution concerning 267 

Report of committee on 264 

Resolution concerning 192 

Consular invoice : 

Draft form of 268 

Suggested form of 194 

Consular manifest, draft form of 267 

Suggested form of 196 






INDEX. 289 

Conventions of Fourth International Conference: Page. 

Copyrights, protection of 128 

Designs, protection of 102 

Industrial models, protection of 102 

Inventions, protection of 102 

Patents, protection of 102 

Pecuniary claims, arbitration of 138 

Trade-marks, protection of 112 

Conventions of Third International Conference, ratifications of the 101 

CopjTrights: 

Action on convention concerning 98 

Convention for the protection of 128 

Report of committee on 278 

Costa Tlica: 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 255, 258 

Recommendations of sanitary conference in 273 

Third International Conference, action on conventions of the 76 

Vote of sympathv for 248 

Cuba: 

Arbitration convention, instructions concerning 79 

Coffee conference, interest in 80 

Commercial relations, report on 79 

Delegation of 59 

Fourth Pan American Conference, representation in the 79 

International Bureau of the American Republics, quota for 79 

Liberal professions, action on resolution concerning 79 

Monetary systems, preparation of report on 80 

Naturalized citizens, status of 78 

Pan American Committee, appointment of 80 

Pan American Railway, report on 79 

Public debts, instructions concerning collection of 79 

Sanitary police, adherence to resolution concerning 79 

Third International Conference, action on conventions of the 77 

Customs regulations: 

Chilean report on 74 

Report of committee on 268 

Resolution concerning 200 

D. 

Delegates, list of 58 

Delegations: 

List of 58 

Personnel of 58 

Argentine Republic 58 

Brazil 58 

Chile 59 

Colombia - 59 

Costa Rica 59 

Cuba 59 

Dominican Republic 59 

Ecuador 59 

Guatemala 59 

Haiti 59 

Honduras 59 

Mexico 59 

Nicaragua 59 

Panama 59 

Paraguay 59 

Peru 60 

Sah^ador 60 

United States 58 

Uruguay 60 

Venezuela 60 

Reports of 65 

Argentine Republic 67 

Brazil 68 



290 INDEX. 

Dele?;ations — Continued. Page. 

Reports of — Continued. 

Chile 69 

Colombia 76 

Costa Rica 76 

Cuba 77 

Dominican Republic 80 

Ecuador 81 

Guatemala 81 

Honduras 82 

Mexico 83 

Nicaragua 85 

Panama 87 

Peru 89 

Salvador 90 

United States 65 

Uruguay 91 

Venezuela 94 

Designs, convention for the protection of 102 

Dominguez, Arturo L., tribute to 250 

Dominican Republic: 

Delegation of 59 

Third International Conference — 

Action on conventions of the 81 

Action on resolutions of the 80 

E. 
Ecuador: 

Commemoration of the independence of 249 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 256, 258 

Third International Conference, action on resolutions and conventions of 

the 81 

Expedition of work, motion for 248 

F. 

France, recognition of the independence anniversary of 248 

Future conferences: ■ 

Action on resolution concerning 100 

Report of committee on 244, 285 

Resolution concerning 244 

G 

General welfare, report of committee on 284 

Guatemala: 

Coffee conference, desirability of a 82 

Delegation of 59 

Herrarte, Luis Toledo, address of 54 

Pan American Railway in 255, 257, 258 

Pan American Railway, work on the 82 

Sanitary police, action on convention for 82 

Third International Conference, action on resolutions and conventions of 

the 81 

H. 
Haiti — 

Delegation of 59 

Herrarte, Luis Toledo, address of 54 

Honduras: 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 255, 258 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolution of 

the 82 

Honorary presidents, naming of 248 249 



INDEX. 291 

I. Page. 

Independence of American republic, resolution commemorating 148 

Industrial models, convention for the protection of 102 

Instructions to United States delegates 36 

Interchange of university professors and students, report of committee on 283 

Interchange of professors and students, resolution concerning 226 

International Scientific Congress of Santiago, resolution concerning 232 

Inventions, convention for the protection of 102 

Invitation extended to distinguished visitors 249 

K. 
Knox, Philander C: 

Message of recognition to 250 

Named as honorary president 248 

L. 
Larreta, Carlos Rodriguez: 

Address of 1 53 

Named as honorary president 249 

Tribute to 249 

Liberal professions, action on resolution regarding the exercise of 99 

Literary and artistic property, report of committee on 278 

M. 

Map of Pan American Railway (facing) 254 

Mexico: 

Arbitration, action on resolution recommending 83 

Bureau of American Republics — 

Action on resolution reorganizing 84 

Approval of commercial section in the 84 

Quota for new building for 84 

Codification of international law, action on the 83 

Commercial relations, action on resolution for developing 85 

Delegation of 59 

Future conferences, action on resolution providing for 85 

Industrial property, action on convention concerning 83 

Liberal professions, action on resolution concerning 84 

Monetary systems, action on resolution concerning 85 

Naturalization, action on convention for 83 

Patents, action on convention concerning 83 

Pan American Committee, appointment of 84 

Pan American Railway in 254, 258 

Report on 85, 254 

Pecuniary claims, action on convention concerning 83 

Public debts, action on resolution for collection of 84 

Sanitary police, action on resolution concerning 85 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the 83 

Trade-marks, action on convention concerning 83 

Mitre, Emilio, tribute to 248 

Monetary systems, action on resolution concerning 100 

Montt, Pedro, tribute to the memory of 249 

Moore, John Bassett, statement of, in report on pecuniary claims 281 

Motions 248 

N. 

Nabuco, Joaquim, tribute to memory of 248 

Natiural resources, action on resolution concerning 100 

Naturalized citizens: 

Action on convention fixing status of 97 

Status of, in Cuba 78 

Nicaragua: 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in 255, 258 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the 85 



292 INDEX. 

O. Page. 

Officials, list of 58 

P. 

Pan American Committee of Cuba 80 

Pan American Committees: 

Action on resolution organizing 99 

Appointment of 101 

Recommendations concerning 100 

Pan American Railway: 

Action on resolution concerning 100 

Branch systems of 259 

Central American extension of 255, 257, 258 

Chilean report on 75 

Commendation of the 260 

Desirability of 260 

Guatemalan report on the 82 

Map of (facing) 254 

Mexican extension of 254, 257, 258 

Motion to expedite work on 250 

Report of committee on 12, 253 

Report of permanent committee on 254 

Resolution concerning 182 

South American extension of 256, 257, 258 

United States extension of 257, 258 

Pan American Union: 

Report of committee on 252 

Resolution concerning the 168 

Panama: 

Delegation of 59 

Pan American Railway in. 255, 257, 258 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the 87 

Panama Canal, resolution concerning commemoration of the opening of the. . . . 240 

Paraguay : 

Delegation of 59 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the 88 

Patents: 

Action on convention concerning 98 

Convention for the protection of 102 

Report of committee on 275, 277 

Pecuniary claims: 

Action on convention concerning ■ 97 

Arbitration of — 

Committee on 280 

Statement of John Basse tt Moore, concerning 281 

Brazilian interpretation of 280 

Convention, Chilean report on 72 

Convention for the arbitration of 138 

Discussion of, by Argentine Congress 281 

Recommendation of Salvador concerning 91 

Report of committee on 280 

Peru: 

Commemoration of the independence of 249 

Delegation of 60 

Pan American Railway in 256, 258 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the ■ 89 

Plaza, Dr. Victorino de la: 

Address of 47 

Named as honorary president 248, 249 

Portela, Epifanio: 

Address of 52 

Tribute to 250 

Program of Conference 31 

Public debts, action on resolution relating to the collection of 99 

Publications, recommendation concerning transmittal of 101 



INDEX. 293 

R. Page. 

Ratifications ol' conventions: 

Of Third International Conference 101 

Recommendation for the facilitation of 101 

Regulations for Conference 32 

Reports of committees: 

Carnegie, Andrew, tribute to 286 

Census 271, 272 

Coffee Congress 251 

Commerce, customs and statistics section 270 

Commercial statistics 270, 271 

Consular documents 264 

Customs regulations 268 

Future conferences 285 

General welfare 284 

Interchange of university professors and students 283 

Literary and artistic property 278 

Pan American Railway 12, 253 

Report of permanent committee on 254 

Pan American Union 252 

Patents and trade-marks 277 

Patents, drawings, and industrial models 275, 277 

Pecuniary claims 280 

Sanitary police 273 

Steamship service 261 

Trade-marks 277 

Reports of delegations 65 

Argentine Republic 67 

Brazil 68 

Chile 69 

Colombia 76 

Costa Rica 76 

Cuba 77 

Dominican Republic 80 

Ecuador 81 

Guatemala 81 

Honduras 82 

Mexico 83 

Nicaragua 85 

Panama 87 

Peru 89 

Salvador 90 

United States 65 

Uruguay 91 

Venezuela 94 

Resolutions of Fourth International Conference: 

Amendment to rules and regulations 147 

American International Scientific Congress of Buenos Aires .- 236 

Carnegie, Andrew, tribute to 178 

Census taking 218 

Coffee Congress 152 

Commerce, customs and statistics, creation of section of 206 

Commercial statistics, compilation of 212 

Consular documents 192 

Customs regulations 200 

Future conferences 244 

Independence of American Republics, commemoration of 148 

International Scientific Congress of Santiago de Chile 232 

Pan American Railroad 182 

Pan American Union 168 

Creation of section of commerce, customs, and statistics in the 206 

Panama Canal, commemoration of the opening of the 240 

Professors and students, interchange of 226 

Sanitary police 222 

Steamship service 186 

Union of American Republics, reorganization of the 156 

Root, Elihu, vote of appreciation of 250 



294 INDEX. 

s. 

Salvador : Page. 

Delegation of 60 

Pan American Railway in 255, 258 

Pecuniary claims, recommendation concerning 91 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions of 

the 90 

Sdnchez Sorondo, Matias G., tribute to 250 

Sanitary Conference in Costa Rica, recommendations of 273 

Sanitary police: 

Action on resolution concerning 100 

Guatemalan report on 82 

Report of committee on 273 

Resolution concerning 222 

Venezuelan reservation regarding 274 

Section of commerce, customs, and statistics in Pan American Union, resolution 

creating a. 206 

South America, Pan American Railway in 256, 257, 258 

Steamship service, report of committee on 261 

Resolution concerning 186 

T. 
Third Intermtional Conference: 

Action. on conventions and resolutions of the. 65 

Ratifications of conventions of the 101 

Report of — 

Argentine delegation 67 

• Brazilian delegation 68 

Chilean delegation 69 

Colombian delegation 76 

Costa Rican delegation 76 

Cuban delegation 77 

Dominican delegation 80 

Ecuadoran delegation 81 

Guatemalan delegation 81 

Honduran delegation 82 

Mexican delegation 83 

Nicaraguan delegation 85 

Panaman delegation 87 

Paraguayan delegation 88 

Peruvian delegation 89 

Salvadoran delegation 90 

United States delegation 65 

Uruguayan delegation 91 

Venezuelan delegation 94 

Committee on examination of memorials concerning 97 

Trade-marks: 

Action on convention concerning 98 

Convention for the protection of 112 

Report of committee on 277 

Tribute to memory of delegates of former conferences 248 

U. 

Union of American Republics, resolution for the reorganization of the 156 

United States: 

Delegation of 58 

Instructions to delegates 36 

Bureau of American Republics, report of Director of 38 

Argentine centenary 37 

Carnegie, Andrew, gift of 38 

Census taking 39 

Commercial statistics 39 

Consular documents 39 

Copyrights 40 

Customs regulations 39 

Future confeiences 41 



INDEX. 295 

United States — Continued. 

Instructions to delegates — Continued. ^age. 

Inter national relations 42 

Organization of conference 37 

Pan Ameiican Railway 38 

Panama Canal, opening of the 41 

Passenger and mail serATce 39 

Patents 40 

Pecuniary claims, treaties on 41 

Report of results of third conference 38 

Sanitation measures 40 

Scientific Congress in Chile 41 

Steamship service 39 

Trade-marks 40 

University professors and students, interchange of 41 

Report of Delegation on Fourth International Conference 5 

Argentine centenary, commemoration of 7, 148 

Bermeio, Dr. Antonio, elected permanent president 5 

Speech of 5,48 

Bureau of American Republics, the reorganization of 9, 156, 169 

Carnegie, Andrew, tribute to 11, 178 

Census, periodical taking of 16, 218, 271 

Closing speeches 27, 50, 53 

Commercial statistics, compilation of 13, 206, 212, 271 

Committees, membership of 6, 61 

Resolution amending organization of 6 147 

Consular regulations, uniformity in 13, 1 92, 264 

Copyrights 20, 128, 278 

Conventions adopted 7 

Customs regulations, uniformity in 13, 200, 268 

Delegates, list of 6, 58 

• Fourth Scientific Congress at Buenos Aires 25, 236 

Future conferences 26, 244 

General welfare 26 

Honorary presidents, election of 5 

Knox, P. C., elected honorary president 5 

Motion of thanks to Secretary of State 27, 250 

Opening of conference 5 

Pan American Railway, the 11, 254 

Pan ximerican Scientific Congress 25, 232 

Pan American Union, the 9, 156, 169 

Panama Canal' opening of the 26, 240 

Participation in conference 5 

Patents 17, 19, 102, 277 

Pecuniary claims, arbitration of 21, 138, 280 

Permanent president, election of 5 

Plaza, de la, Victorino, speech of 5, 44 

Plaza, de la, Victorino, elected honorary president 5 

Program 6, 31 

Quarantine 17, 222, 273 

Resolutions adopted 7 

Root, Elihu, appreciation of 27, 250 

Sanitary police 17, 222, 273 

Sessions, number of 7 

Steamship, mail and passenger service 13, 186, 261 

Third conference, action on resolutions and conventions of 7, 65, 97 

Trade-marks 19, 112, 277 

University professors, interchange of 25, 226 

White, Henry, speech of 5, 47 

Third International Conference, action on conventions of the 65 

Third International Conference, action on resolutions of the 65 

White, Henry, address of 47 

Uruguay; 

Delegation of 60 

Third International Conference, action on conventions and resolutions 

of the 91 

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Del'^gation of 60 

Reservation of, regarding sanitary police , 274 

Third International Conference, report of delegation on conventions and 

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